sizzle

sizzle
    n 1: a sizzling noise
    v 1: make a sound like frying fat
    2: seethe with deep anger or resentment; "She was sizzling with
       anger"
    3: burn or sear with a sizzling sound; "The fat sizzled in the
       pan"
    

Sizzle \Siz"zle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Sizzled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Sizzling}.] [See {Siss}.]
   To make a hissing sound; to fry, or to dry and shrivel up,
   with a hissing sound. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U. S.] --Forby.
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Sizzle \Siz"zle\, n.
   A hissing sound, as of something frying over a fire. [Prov.
   Eng. & Colloq. U. S.]
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115 Moby Thesaurus words for "sizzle":
      assibilate, assibilation, ball the jack, barrel, be livid,
      be pissed, bluster, boil, boom, bowl along, breeze, breeze along,
      browned off, brush, burn, buzz, carry on, chafe, clip, cut along,
      effervesce, effervescence, effervescing, fizz, fizzle, fizzling,
      fleet, flit, fly, fly low, foot, fret, frication,
      frictional rustling, fume, go fast, go on, have a conniption,
      highball, hiss, hissing, hush, hushing, lisp, make knots, nip,
      outstrip the wind, pissed off, pour it on, rage, raise Cain,
      raise hell, raise the devil, raise the roof, rant, rant and rave,
      rave, rhonchus, rip, scorch, sear, seethe, shush, shushing,
      sibilance, sibilate, sibilation, siffle, sigmatism, simmer, siss,
      sissing, sizz, sizzling, skim, smoke, smolder, sneeze, sneezing,
      sniff, sniffle, snore, snort, snuff, snuffle, speed, spit,
      splutter, sputter, squash, squelch, squish, sternutation, stertor,
      stew, storm, storm along, sweep, swish, take on, tear, tear along,
      throw a fit, thunder along, wheeze, whish, whisk, whistle,
      whistling, white noise, whiz, whoosh, zing, zip, zoom