hiss

English

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hɪs/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɪs

Noun

hiss (plural hisses)

  1. A sibilant sound, such as that made by a snake or escaping steam; an unvoiced fricative.
  2. An expression of disapproval made using such a sound.

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Verb

hiss (third-person singular simple present hisses, present participle hissing, simple past and past participle hissed)

  1. (intransitive) To make a hissing sound.
    As I started to poke it, the snake hissed at me.
    The arrow hissed through the air.
    • Wordsworth
      Shod with steel, / We hissed along the polished ice.
    • 2011 December 14, John Elkington, “John Elkington”, in the Guardian‎:
      It turns out that the driver of the red Ferrari that caused the crash wasn't, as I first guessed, a youngster, but a 60-year-old. Clearly, he had energy to spare, which was more than could be said about a panel I listened to around the same time as the crash. Indeed, someone hissed in my ear during a First Magazine awards ceremony in London's imposing Marlborough House on 7 December: "What we need is more old white men on the stage."
  2. (transitive) To condemn or express contempt for by hissing.
    • Bible, Ezekiel xxvii. 36
      The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee.
    • Shakespeare
      if the tag-rag people did not clap him and hiss him, according as he pleased and displeased them
  3. (transitive) To utter with a hissing sound.
    • Tennyson
      the long-necked geese of the world that are ever hissing dispraise

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Azerbaijani

Etymology

Ultimately from Arabic حِسّ‎ (ḥiss).

Noun

hiss (definite accusative hissi, plural hisslər)

  1. feeling, sensation

Declension

Declension of hiss
singular plural
nominative hiss hisslər
definite accusative hissi hissləri
dative hissə hisslərə
locative hissdə hisslərdə
ablative hissdən hisslərdən
definite genitive hissin hisslərin

German

Verb

hiss

  1. Imperative singular of hissen.
  2. (colloquial) First-person singular present of hissen.

Middle English

Pronoun

hiss

  1. Alternative form of his

References

Swedish

Pronunciation

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Noun

hiss c

  1. An elevator (AE); a lift (BE).

Declension

Declension of hiss 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative hiss hissen hissar hissarna
Genitive hiss hissens hissars hissarnas
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