hissing

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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hissing

  1. present participle and gerund of hiss
    • 1941 August, C. Hamilton Ellis, “The English Station”, in Railway Magazine, page 357:
      Our solid, shiny chairs, our immense, dingy sofas, our heavy mahogany tables and our cast-iron fenders, often bearing the initials of long-dead railway companies, likewise our plaster walls of chocolate and duck-egg green and our hissing gasoliers have their roots deep in our national history.

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Adjective

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hissing (comparative more hissing, superlative most hissing)

  1. that produces or is accompanied with a hiss

Noun

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hissing (plural hissings)

  1. The sound of a hiss.
    • 1875, John Lothrop Motley, The Life and Death of John of Barneveld Advocate of Holland:
      The hissings and screamings of the vulgar against him as he moved forward on his stedfast course he heeded less than those of geese on a common.