hiss
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[edit] Noun
hiss (plural hisses)
- A sound made by a snake, cat, escaping steam, etc.
- An expression of disapproval made to sound like the noise of a snake.
[edit] Translations
sound made by a snake, cat, escaping steam, etc.
animal expression of disapproval
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[edit] Verb
hiss (third-person singular simple present hisses, present participle hissing, simple past and past participle hissed)
- To make a hissing sound.
- As I started to poke it, the snake hissed at me.
- 2011 December 14, John Elkington, “John Elkington”, 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."
[edit] Translations
to make a hissing sound
[edit] Swedish
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audio (file)
[edit] Noun
hiss c.
