hissing
pronunciation
How to pronounce hissing in British English:
UK [hɪsɪŋ]
How to pronounce hissing in American English:
US ['hɪsɪŋ]
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- Noun:
- a fricative sound (especially as an expression of disapproval)
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- Adjective:
- noisy sound like a sustained `s'
Word Origin
- hissing (n.)
- late 14c., hissyng, of imitative origin (see hiss (v.)), but originally also "whistling." In both senses expressing opprobrium.
Example
- 1. The machine made a hissing sound and then stopped .
- 2. The white and icy spume hissing into the sea .
- 3. That hissing gets on my nerves .
- 4. Let them live who choose in their own hissing world of fireworks .
- 5. And babylon will become a heap of ruins , a habitation of jackals , an astonishment and a hissing , without inhabitant .