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fizzle
1530s, "to break wind without noise," probably altered from obsolete
fist
, from M.E.
fisten
"break wind" (see
feisty
). Related:
Fizzled
;
fizzling
. Noun sense of "failure, fiasco" is from 1846, originally U.S. college slang for "failure in an exam."
