Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

fizz

fizz (fiz) , intransitive verb

[Compare Icelandic fīsa to break wind, Danish fise to foist, fizzle, OSw. fisa, German fisten, feisten. Compare Foist.]

To make a hissing sound, such as that of a burning fuse or a bubbling carbonated beverage.

Fizz , noun

A hissing sound; as, the fizz of a fly.