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Wissed vs Hissed - What's the difference?

wissed | hissed |

As verbs the difference between wissed and hissed

is that wissed is (wiss) or wisse while hissed is (hiss).

wissed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (wiss) or wisse
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=2003 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Andrew Lang , title=John Knox and the Reformation , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher= , isbn=9780766175709 , page=180 , passage=She did not respond favourably, and "the Earl bare it heavily in his heart, and more heavily than many would have wissed ," says Knox, with whome Arran was on very confidential terms. }}

    hissed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (hiss)

    • Anagrams

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    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