tiss

See also: tīšs

English

Verb

tiss (third-person singular simple present tisses, present participle tissing, simple past and past participle tissed)

1. (nonce word) To make a hissing sound.
   • 1927, Henry William Williamson, Tarka the Otter, Chapter 19:

     He ran along the edge, quickening at the shout of the kennel-boy, and had almost reached the island’s tail when Bite’m pinned him in the shoulder. Tissing through his open mouth, Tarka rolled and fought with the terriers.

   • 1962, R F Delderfield, The Unjust Skies (also 1980 Diana), Afterglow:

     His psalms were sung to the tissing larch, his hymns to the purple heath.

Cimbrian

Alternative forms

• tisch (Luserna)

Etymology

From Middle High German tisch, from Old High German tisc (“plate”), from Proto-West Germanic *disk, borrowed from Latin discus, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek δίσκος (dískos).

Noun

tiss m (plural tissar)

1. (Sette Comuni) table

Declension

Declension of tiss

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	an	dar	tiss	de	tissar
accusative	an	in	tiss	de	tissar
dative	aname	me	tisse	in	tissarn

References

• “tiss” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974), Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

Estonian

Etymology

From Middle Low German tis or Swedish tiss.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtisʲː/, [ˈtʲisʲː]
• Rhymes: -isʲː
• Hyphenation: tiss

Noun

tiss (genitive tissi, partitive tissi)

1. (colloquial) boob, tit

   Synonym: rind

   • 2003, Uno Mereste, Toimunust & kaasaelatust: osa. Meenutusi aastaist 1928-1964‎^[1], SE & JS, →ISBN, page 300:

     Enne kui seal rahva ees suu lahti tegin, kuulsin kõrvus kajamas "tissid" ja sain aru, mis ma tegelikult olin kaunile õele öelnud.

     Before I opened my mouth in front of the crowd, I heard “tits” ringing in my ears and realised what I had actually said to my beautiful sister.

Declension

Declension of tiss (ÕS type 22e/riik, length gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		tiss	tissid
accusative	nom.
	gen.	tissi
genitive			tisside
partitive		tissi	tisse tissisid
illative		tissi tississe	tissidesse tissesse
inessive		tissis	tissides tisses
elative		tissist	tissidest tissest
allative		tissile	tissidele tissele
adessive		tissil	tissidel tissel
ablative		tissilt	tissidelt tisselt
translative		tissiks	tissideks tisseks
terminative		tissini	tissideni
essive		tissina	tissidena
abessive		tissita	tissideta
comitative		tissiga	tissidega

References

• tiss in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
• “tiss”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
• “tiss”, in [ETY] Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

tiss n (definite singular tisset, uncountable)

1. pee

Noun

tiss m (definite singular tissen, indefinite plural tisser, definite plural tissene)

1. pee-pee, willy (childish term for penis)

Verb

tiss

1. imperative of tisse

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

tiss m (definite singular tissen, indefinite plural tissar, definite plural tissane)

1. pee-pee, willy

Noun

tiss n (definite singular tisset, indefinite plural tiss, definite plural tissa)

1. pee