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Hiss vs Sizzle - What's the difference?

hiss | sizzle |

Sizzle is a synonym of hiss.



As nouns the difference between hiss and sizzle

is that hiss is a high-pitched sound made by a snake, cat, escaping steam, etc while sizzle is the sound of water hitting a hot surface.

As verbs the difference between hiss and sizzle

is that hiss is to make a hissing sound while sizzle is to make the sound of water hitting a hot surface.

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

    sizzle

    English

    Verb

    (sizzl)
  • to make the sound of water hitting a hot surface
  • to be exciting or dazzling
    • The song sizzled with energy.

    Noun

  • (countable) the sound of water hitting a hot surface
    • We heard the sizzle of the onions hitting the pan.
  • (uncountable) zing, zip, or pizazz; excitement.
    • Her performance had a lot of sizzle .

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    * English onomatopoeias