different between spume vs fizz

English

Etymology

From Middle English spume, from Old French espume, from Latin sp?ma.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spju?m/
• Rhymes: -u?m

Noun

spume (countable and uncountable, plural spumes)

1. Foam or froth of liquid, particularly that of seawater.
   • 1855, Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, XIX:

     No sluggish tide congenial to the glooms; / This, as it frothed by, might have been a bath / For the fiend's glowing hoof - to see the wrath / Of its black eddy bespate with flakes and spumes.

   • 1906, Jack London, White Fang, part I, ch I,

     Their breath froze in the air as it left their mouths, spouting forth in spumes of vapour that settled upon the hair of their bodies and formed into crystals of frost.

Derived terms

• spumous
• spumy

Translations

Verb

spume (third-person singular simple present spumes, present participle spuming, simple past and past participle spumed)

1. To froth.

Anagrams

• pumse

Italian

Noun

spume f

1. plural of spuma

Middle English

Alternative forms

• spome (Northern)

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French espume, from Latin sp?ma.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?spiu?m(?)/

Noun

spume (uncountable)

1. spume, foam

Related terms

• spumen
• spumous

Descendants

• English: spume

References

• “sp?me, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

English

Etymology

Onomatopoeia.

Pronunciation

• enPR: f?z, IPA^(key): /f?z/
• Rhymes: -?z

Noun

fizz (countable and uncountable, plural fizzes)

1. An emission of a rapid stream of bubbles.

   I poured a cola and waited for the fizz to settle down before topping off the glass.

2. The sound of such an emission.

   Evan sat back in the hot tub and listened to the relaxing fizz and pops produced by the eruption of bubbles.

3. A carbonated beverage, especially champagne.

   Nathan ordered an orange fizz from the soda jerk at the counter.

Synonyms

• (emission of bubbles): effervescence, foam, froth, head
• (sound of bubbles): bubble, fizzle, hiss, sputter
• (carbonated beverage): pop, seltzer, soda, tonic

Translations

Verb

fizz (third-person singular simple present fizzes, present participle fizzing, simple past and past participle fizzed)

1. (intransitive) To emit bubbles.
2. (intransitive) To make a rapid hissing or bubbling sound.

   the fizzing fuse of a bomb

3. (intransitive) To shoot or project something moving at great velocity.
4. To travel at a great velocity, producing a sound caused by the speed.

Synonyms

• (emit bubbles): bubble, effervesce, foam, froth
• (make bubbling sound): fizzle, hiss, sizzle, sputter

Derived terms

• fizzy

Translations