Definitions
show displeasure, as after a performance or speech
Word origin
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”).
Used in a sentence
“Their music frightful as the serpent’s hiss, And boding screech-owls make the concert full!”
“[…] over head the dismal hiss Of fiery Darts in flaming volies flew,”
“A hundred Reeds, of a prodigious Growth, Scarce made a Pipe, proportion’d to his Mouth: Which, when he gave it Wind, the Rocks around, And watry Plains, the dreadful Hiss resound.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Sharp sibilant sound”4 letters
02“Sharp displeased sound”4 letters
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