Sissed vs Hissed - What's the difference?
sissed | hissed |
(siss)
(US, colloquial) A hissing noise.
(US, colloquial, intransitive) To make a hissing sound.
(hiss)
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.
To make a hissing sound.
* Wordsworth
* {{quote-news
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To condemn or express contempt for by hissing.
* Bible, Ezekiel xxvii. 36
* Shakespeare
To utter with a hissing sound.
* Tennyson
As verbs the difference between sissed and hissed
is that sissed is past tense of siss while hissed is past tense of hiss.sissed
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(head)siss
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(es)Verb
(es)- a flatiron hot enough to siss when touched with a wet finger
hissed
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(head)Anagrams
*hiss
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(es)Verb
- As I started to poke it, the snake hissed at me.
- The arrow hissed through the air.
- Shod with steel, / We hissed along the polished ice.
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- The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee.
- if the tag-rag people did not clap him and hiss him, according as he pleased and displeased them
- the long-necked geese of the world that are ever hissing dispraise