Meaning & use
bath fizzers
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Meaning
nounplural
Small solid balls or tablets that dissolve with fizzing bubbles when dropped into bathwater, often colored and scented.
Grammar: Almost always plural; for one item say 'a bath fizzer' or 'a bath bomb'.
Patterns
- drop a bath fizzer in the water
- a bath fizzer that smells of lavender
She bought a box of bath fizzers for her sister's birthday.
Drop one bath fizzer into warm water and watch it bubble.
The bath fizzers turned the water bright pink and smelled of citrus.
Word forms
| singular | bath fizzer |
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Common combinations
- scented bath fizzers
- The shop sells scented bath fizzers in six different colors.
- drop in a bath fizzer
- He dropped in a bath fizzer and the whole tub went green.
- set of bath fizzers
- A set of bath fizzers makes a cheap but cheerful gift.
- homemade bath fizzers
- We made homemade bath fizzers with baking soda and citric acid.
Synonyms and how they differ
- bath bomb
- The usual British term for the same product, and now common in American English too.
- bath salts
- Refers to scented crystals or powders for the water, not to a solid ball that fizzes.
Word family
Commonly confused: bath fizzers or bath bombs?
bath fizzers vs bath bombs
The same idea and very close in meaning; 'bath bomb' is far more common in everyday speech, while 'bath fizzers' sounds more like a shop label.
Practice
Which sentence uses the word correctly?
Choose one answer.
'Bath fizzer' is the singular countable form, so it needs 'a' and a singular verb phrase: 'a bath fizzer in the water.' Option A wrongly uses the plural with 'a', and option C adds a plural 'waters' that does not fit here.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “bath fizzers”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.