Definition of Hiss

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Definition of Hiss

Hiss

To make with the mouth a prolonged sound like that of the letter s, by driving the breath between the tongue and the teeth; to make with the mouth a sound like that made by a goose or a snake when angered; esp., to make such a sound as an expression of hatred, passion, or disapproval.

To make a similar noise by any means; to pass with a sibilant sound; as, the arrow hissed as it flew.

To condemn or express contempt for by hissing.

To utter with a hissing sound.

A prolonged sound like that letter s, made by forcing out the breath between the tongue and teeth, esp. as a token of disapprobation or contempt.

Any sound resembling that above described

The noise made by a serpent.

The note of a goose when irritated.

The noise made by steam escaping through a narrow orifice, or by water falling on a hot stove.

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Hiss Quotations

Studying cows, pigs and chickens can help an actor develop his character. There are a lot of things I learned from animals. One was that they couldn't hiss or boo me.
James Dean

There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
Bette Davis

Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.
Aesop

My children, as long as you live, the shadow of the Hiss Case will brush you. In every pair of eyes that rests on you, you will see pass, like a cloud passing behind a woods in winter, the memory of your father - dissembled in friendly eyes, lurking in unfriendly eyes.
Whittaker Chambers

At issue in the Hiss Case was the question whether this sick society, which we call Western civilization, could in its extremity still cast up a man whose faith in it was so great that he would voluntarily abandon those things which men hold good, including life, to defend it.
Whittaker Chambers

It just comes down to taste at the end of the day, and that's something you can't really analyze. Yeah, I think to have it all there is basically best, regardless of whether there's hiss there as well.
Sean Booth

It's also ironic that in the old days of tape and tape hiss and vinyl records and surface noise, we were always trying to get records louder and louder to overcome that.
T-Bone Burnett

Hiss Translations

hiss in Dutch is sissen, fluiten
hiss in German is zischen, zischen, fauche
hiss in Norwegian is vislelyd, visle
hiss in Portuguese is silvo
hiss in Spanish is siseo

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