fizzler

noun — 3 senses

fizzler

noun

/ˈfɪzləɹ/

Etymology From fizzle + -er.

1

A fizzy cocktail.

2

A kind of firework.

fizzler

noun

Etymology Clipping of physicist + -er.

1

Slang A physicist.

Uncle Nick was this old fizzler on the Hill. The grownups called him Nicholas Baker and the kids all called him Uncle Nick, but the army couldn't fool me. I knew he was Niels Bohr, the world's greatest atomic scientist, all the way from Denmark.2004, Jacqueline Davies, Where the Ground Meets the Sky, page 132:

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