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Hiss vs Sizz - What's the difference?

hiss | sizz |

As nouns the difference between hiss and sizz

is that hiss is a high-pitched sound made by a snake, cat, escaping steam, etc while sizz is (rare|or|archaic) fizz.

As verbs the difference between hiss and sizz

is that hiss is to make a hissing sound while sizz is (rare|or|archaic) to fizz.

hiss

English

Noun

(es)
  • A high-pitched sound made by a snake, cat, escaping steam, etc.
  • An expression of disapproval made to sound like the noise of a snake.

    • Verb

  • To make a hissing sound.
    • As I started to poke it, the snake hissed at me.
    The arrow hissed through the air.
  • * Wordsworth
    • Shod with steel, / We hissed along the polished ice.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=December 14 , author=John Elkington , title=John Elkington , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=It turns out that the driver of the red Ferrari that caused the crash wasn't, as I first guessed, a youngster, but a 60-year-old. Clearly, he had energy to spare, which was more than could be said about a panel I listened to around the same time as the crash. Indeed, someone hissed in my ear during a First Magazine awards ceremony in London's imposing Marlborough House on 7 December: "What we need is more old white men on the stage."}}
  • To condemn or express contempt for by hissing.
  • * Bible, Ezekiel xxvii. 36
    • The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee.
  • * Shakespeare
    • if the tag-rag people did not clap him and hiss him, according as he pleased and displeased them
  • To utter with a hissing sound.
  • * Tennyson
    • the long-necked geese of the world that are ever hissing dispraise

    sizz

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • (rare, or, archaic) fizz
  • *{{quote-book, year=1896, author=Robert L. Taylor, title=Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=I heard the din of happy voices in the "big house" and the sizz and songs of boiling kettles in the kitchen. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1920, author=Franklin P. Adams, title=Something Else Again, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Horace: Book III, Ode 13 "O fons Bandusiae, splendidior vitro----" Worthy of flowers and syrups sweet, O fountain of Bandusian onyx, To-morrow shall a goatling's bleat Mix with the sizz of thy carbonics. }}

    Verb

    (es)
  • (rare, or, archaic) To fizz