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Fiss vs Siss - What's the difference?

fiss | siss |

As verbs the difference between fiss and siss

is that fiss is to split apart into multiple entities while siss is to make a hissing sound.

As a noun siss is

a hissing noise.

fiss

English

Verb

  • (nonstandard) To split apart into multiple entities.
  • *1998 , Richard Hanley, Is Data Human?
  • *:Perhaps every five minutes each person ceases to exist and is fissed , with one descendant instantly replacing the original and the other materializing on a twin Earth somewhere...

    • siss

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • (US, colloquial) A hissing noise.

    • Verb

    (es)
  • (US, colloquial, intransitive) To make a hissing sound.
    • a flatiron hot enough to siss when touched with a wet finger
    (Webster 1913)