ˈsizzing dial.
Also 6 sizing, 8 siesin, 9 sizzen, etc.
[See quot. 1674.]
Yeast, barm.
Given in 19th-c. glossaries as current in Kent, Surrey, Sussex, and Hampshire.
| 1594 Lyly Mother Bombie ii. i, My wits worke like barme, alias yest, alias sizing, alias rising, alias Gods good. 1674 Ray S. & E. Co. Words, Sizzing, yeast or barm, Suss.; from the sound Beer or Ale make in working. [Hence in Grose, etc.] 1736 Lewis Hist. Thanet (ed. 2) 38 Siesin. |