hiss

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English hissen, probably of onomatopoeic origin (compare Arabic هَسْهَسَ (hashasa)). Compare Middle Dutch hissen, hisschen (“to chase away, shoo”), Middle Low German hissen (“to chase, hound, incite”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /hɪs/ Rhymes: -ɪs === Noun === hiss (plural hisses) A sibilant sound, such as that made by a snake or escaping steam; an unvoiced fricative. An expression of disapproval made using such a sound. 1716, Joseph Addison, The Free-Holder, 16 April, 1716, London: D. Midwinter and J. Tonson, pp. 203-204,[2] The Actors, in the midst of an innocent old Play, are often startled with unexpected Claps or Hisses; and do not know whether they have been talking like good Subjects, or have spoken Treason. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Verb === hiss (third-person singular simple present hisses, present participle hissing, simple past and past participle hissed) (intransitive) To make a hiss, a sibilant sound of air escaping. Synonyms: fizzle, fizz 1797, Ann Ward Radcliffe, chapter 7, in The Italian, volume II, London: T. Cadell Jun. & W. Davies, page 236: The man came back, and said something in a lower voice, to which the other replied, “she sleeps,” or Ellena was deceived by the hissing consonants of some other words. (transitive) To call someone by hissing. (transitive, intransitive) To condemn or express contempt (for someone or something) by hissing. (transitive) To utter (something) with a hissing sound. 2012, Hilary Mantel, Bring Up the Bodies, New York: Henry Holt, Part 2, “Master of Phantoms,” All day from the queen’s rooms, shouting, slamming doors, running feet: hissed conversations in undertones. (intransitive) To move with a hissing sound. (transitive) To emit or eject (something) with a hissing sound. (transitive) To whisper, especially angrily or urgently. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === See also === hizz === Anagrams === HSIs, IHSS, Shis, shis == Azerbaijani == === Etymology === Borrowed from Arabic حِسّ (ḥiss). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [hisː] === Noun === hiss (definite accusative hissi, plural hisslər) feeling, sensation Synonym: duyğu ==== Usage notes ==== The final double consonant in Azerbaijani nouns is usually reduced in the locative and ablative singular and plural; hiss and küll are exceptions to this rule, as they would otherwise be confused with his and kül (“Azərbaycan dilində hansı sözlərin yazılışının dəyişəcəyi açıqlanıb”, in Report.az‎[17], January 2018). ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== hiss etmək (“to feel”) == German == === Pronunciation === === Verb === hiss singular imperative of hissen (colloquial) first-person singular present of hissen == Middle English == === Pronoun === hiss alternative form of his (“his”) == Norwegian Nynorsk == === Etymology === From h +‎ -iss. === Noun === hiss m (definite singular hissen, indefinite plural hissar, definite plural hissane) (music) B-sharp == Swedish == === Etymology === Deverbal from hissa (“to hoist”). Attested since 1824. === Pronunciation === === Noun === hiss c an elevator, a lift ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === References === “hiss”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish) “hiss”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish) “hiss”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)