LekhoriLekhoriA sibilant sound, such as that made by a snake or escaping steam; an unvoiced fricative.
Their music frightful as the serpent’s hiss, And boding screech-owls make the concert full!
An expression of disapproval made using such a sound.
[…] in open disputations ye haue bene openly conuict, ye haue bene openly driuen out of the schole with hisses […]
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, hou...
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To call someone by hissing.
I stepped out of my tent in Marrakech one night to get a bar of candy and caught your dose of clap when that Wac I never even saw before hissed me into the bushes.
To condemn or express contempt (for someone or something) by hissing.
The crowd booed and hissed her off the stage.