Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Sizzle

Sizzle , intransitive verb

[See Siss.]

To make a hissing sound; to fry, or to dry and shrivel up, with a hissing sound. [Provincial English & Colloquial United States] — Forby

Sizzle , noun

A hissing sound, as of something frying over a fire. [Provincial English & Colloquial United States]