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Definition: Hissing |
HissingAdjective1. Like a sustained `s'; "`hissing' is the sound a snake makes". Noun1. A fricative sound (especially as an expression of disapproval); "the performers could not be heard over the hissing of the audience". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "hissing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of hissing persons, is an omen that you will be displeased beyond endurance at the discourteous treatment shown you while among newly made acquaintances. If they hiss you, you will be threatened with the loss of a friend. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: HissingSynonyms: hiss (n), sibilation (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disapprobation | Clamor, outcry, hue and cry; hiss, hissing; sibilance, sibilation, catcall; execration. |
Disrespect | Vilipendency, vilification, contumely, affront, dishonor, insult, indignity, outrage, discourtesy; practical joking; scurrility, scoffing, sibilance, hissing, sibilation; irrision; derision; mockery; irony; (ridicule); sarcasm. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Hissing |
| English words defined with "hissing": atmospheric static, atmospherics ♦ faint, fizzing, fizzy ♦ hiss, hisser, Hissingly ♦ lap ♦ Piping hot ♦ sibilant, sibilant consonant, sibilate, sibilation, Sibilatory, Sibilous, Sifflement, siss, sizz, sizzling, soft, static, Sulphur trioxide, swish, swosh ♦ whiz. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "hissing": Sifflement. (references) |
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| "Hissing Roach on a pumpkin" by Ariel C. Commentary: "Hissing Roach on a pumpkin." |
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 | Black leopard growling and hissing. | | Two cats fighting, hissing, and growling. |
| Cobra snake hissing. | | Cat hissing and growling. |
| Wildcat hissing. | | Air hissing; losing air pressure; the sound of an aerosol can letting out its contents. |
| Cat hissing. | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | He presses down a hissing hamburger with his spatula |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | I will not have my eyes put out and my ears spoiled by its smoke and steam and hissing. |
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Health | Tinnitus (a ringing, roaring, or hissing sound in one or both ears) may also occur. (references) | |
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| "Hissing" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 58.33% of the time. "Hissing" is used about 156 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 58.33% | 91 | 34,491 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 21.15% | 33 | 60,273 |
| Noun (singular) | 20.51% | 32 | 61,292 |
| Total | 100.00% | 156 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "hissing". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Masrekah | N/A | Biblical | Hissing |
| Sorek | N/A | Biblical | Hissing |
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| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "hissing": hissing-hi-hat. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
cockroach hissing | 24 |
madagascar hissing cockroach | 20 |
hissing cockroaches | 18 |
madagascar hissing cockroaches | 15 |
cat hissing | 14 |
beetle hissing | 11 |
hissing t610 | 5 |
hissing | 5 |
cat hissing picture | 4 |
hissing roaches | 4 |
auditory hissing | 2 |
hissing roach | 2 |
hissing kitten | 2 |
hissing snake | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "hissing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | që fërshëllen, fërshëllimë (hiss, phut, sing, whistle, whiz, whizz, zip). (various references) | |
Arabic | المطلق صوتا. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | съскащ (fizzy), съскане (fizz, hiss, splutter), свистене (hiss, phut, ping, scream, swish, whiz, zip), освиркване (catcall, raspberry, razz). (various references) | |
Chinese | 发出嘘声 (Hissed). (various references) | |
Czech | syèící (sizzling). (various references) | |
French | siffleur, sifflant, chuchotant, bruire. (various references) | |
German | zischend (fizzing, frizzling, sibilant, sibilantly, sizzling, whizzing). (various references) | |
Hebrew | שריקות. (various references) | |
Hungarian | sziszegõ (sibilant), sziszegés (hiss, sibilance, swish). (various references) | |
Italian | rumoreggiare (roar, rumble). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 半畳 (half mat, heckling). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | はんじょう (flourishing, half mat, heckling, prosperity, thriving, variegated streaks). (various references) | |
Manx | thassaney (buzz, hiss, twitter, twittering), sheeane thassane. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | issinghay.(various references) | |
Romanian | siflant (sibilant), sâsâit (hiss, lisp, lisping), fluierat (pipe, whistle). (various references) | |
Russian | свистеть свист шипящий, свист (catcall, phut, ping, singing, whistle, whistling, whizz, wolf whistle), шипящий (effervescent, sibilant), шипение (fizz, hiss, sibilance, sizzle, splutter, sputter). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | siktanje (hiss), sikćući, šištanje (hiss, wheezing). (various references) | |
Spanish | silbido (blowing, catcall, hiss, ping, sing, singing, swish, swoosh, whine, whistle, whistling, whiz, whizz, zing, zip). (various references) | |
Swedish | fräsning (frying, milling), fräs (cutter, frying, lick, milling machine). (various references) | |
Turkish | tıslayan, tıslama (hiss, spit). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | свистячий (sibilant, whistling), свист (catcall, phut, ping, swish, whew, whiff, whistle, whistling, whiz, whizz, whoosh, zing, zip), сичання (hiss), шипіння (effervescence, effervescency, fizz, hiss, sizzle, splutter), шиплячий (sibilant). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | sibilos, sibilum, sibilus, stridor, stridorem. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Job Chapter 27, Verse 23 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Krothsei ep' autou ceiraV autou kai suriei auton ek tou topou autou |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Stringet super eum manus suas et sibilabit super illum intuens locum eius |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Men make signs of joy because of him, driving him from his place with sounds of hissing. |
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| Language | Job Chapter 27, Verse 23 |
| Albanian | njerëzia duartroket në mënyrë tallëse për të dhe fërshëllen kundër tij nga vendi ku ndodhet". |
| Cebuano | Siya pagapakpakan sa mga tawo sa ilang mga kamot, Ug pagasitsitan siya gikan sa iyang dapit. |
| Croatian | Rukama plješæu nad njegovom propašæu i zvižde na njega kamo god došao. |
| Danish | man klapper i Hænderne mod ham og piber ham bort fra hans Sted! |
| Dutch | Een ieder zal over hem met zijn handen klappen, en over hem fluiten uit zijn plaats. |
| Finnish | Silloin paukutetaan hänelle kämmeniä ja vihelletään hänelle hänen asuinpaikaltansa." |
| French | On bat des mains à sa chute, Et on le siffle à son départ. |
| German | Man wird über ihn mit den Händen klatschen und über ihn zischen, wo er gewesen ist. |
| Haitian Creole | Moun kontan wè jan li fini. Kote l' pase, y'ap rele chalbari dèyè l'. |
| Hungarian | Csapkodják felette kezeiket, és kisüvöltik õt az õ lakhelyébõl. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Jatuhnya disambut orang dengan tepuk tangan; di mana-mana ia mendapat penghinaan." |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Pada masa itu orang akan bertepuk-tepuk tangan sebab halnya dan bersiul-siul akan dia, sebab lenyaplah ia dari pada tempatnya. |
| Italian | Si battono le mani contro di lui e si fischia su di lui dal luogo dove abita. |
| Maori | Ka papaki te tangata i o ratou ringa ki a ia, a ka whakahi, ka a atu i a ia i tona wahi. |
| Norwegian | Folk klapper i hendene og håner ham og piper ham bort fra hans sted. |
| Portuguese | Bate palmas contra ele, e assobia contra ele do seu lugar. |
| Rumanian | Oamenii bat din palme la cqderea lui, wi -l fluerq la plecarea din locul lui. |
| Russian | чУРМЕУОХФ П ОЕН ТХЛБНЙ Й РПУЧЙЭХФ ОБД ОЙН У НЕУФБ ЕЗП! |
| Spanish | Contra él batirá las manos, y silbará contra él desde su lugar. |
| Swedish | Då slår man ihop händerna, honom till hån; man visslar åt honom på platsen där han var. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "hissing": hissings. (additional references) | |
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"Hissing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dissing, Ghising, hasing, Hassuna, Heising, Heysing, Hisan, Hisking, hissen, hissong, hoising, Hossan, Hsing, Hssag, Huizhong, husing, Hysing, Hysni, Issing, Tiessing. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "hissing" (pronounced hi"sing) |
| 4 | -i" s i ng | dismissing, kissing, missing, reminiscing, wissing. |
| 3 | -s i ng | annexing, announcing, accessing, acquiescing, addressing, advancing, affixing, amassing, assessing, balancing, basing, blessing, bouncing, boxing, bracing, busing, bussing, buttressing, bypassing, canvassing, caressing, casing, ceasing, chasing, classing, coalescing, coaxing, coercing, collapsing, commencing, compressing, condensing, conferencing, confessing, conversing, convincing, coursing, crisscrossing, crossing, cursing, cussing, dancing, debasing, decreasing, defacing, denouncing, depressing, diagnosing, digressing, disbursing, discussing, dispensing, dispersing, displacing, distancing, distressing, divorcing, dosing, dousing, dowsing, dressing, eclipsing, effacing, embarrassing, embracing, encompassing, endorsing, enforcing, engrossing, enhancing, enticing, erasing, expensing, experiencing, expressing, facing, faxing, fencing, financing, fixing, flexing, focusing, forcing, freelancing, fundraising, fussing, gassing, glancing, greasing, grimacing, grossing, grousing, guessing, hairdressing, harassing, harnessing, horsing, icing, impressing, increasing, indexing, inducing, influencing, intermixing, introducing, invoicing, Lancing, lapsing, leasing, lensing, licensing, loosing, massing, menacing, mensing, messing, mincing, mixing, noticing, nursing, obsessing, oppressing, outdistancing, outpacing, outsourcing, overproducing, pacing, parsing, passing, perplexing, piecing, piercing, placing, policing, possessing, pouncing, practicing, prancing, prejudicing, pressing, pricing, processing, producing, professing, progressing, promising, pronouncing, pulsing, racing, reassessing, rebalancing, recessing, redressing, reducing, referencing, refinancing, refocusing, rehearsing, reimbursing, reinforcing, reintroducing, rejoicing, relapsing, relaxing, releasing, renouncing, replacing, repressing, repricing, reprocessing, reproducing, repulsing, repurchasing, resurfacing, retracing, reversing, rinsing, romancing, sacrificing, seducing, sensing, sentencing, sequencing, servicing, showcasing, silencing, slicing, sluicing, sourcing, spacing, spicing, splicing, sprucing, stressing, subleasing, suppressing, surfacing, surpassing, taxing, teleconferencing, tossing, tracing, traipsing, traversing, trespassing, trouncing, unceasing, unconvincing, underpricing, unpromising, vexing, videoconferencing, voicing, waltzing, waxing, wincing, witnessing, xeroxing. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-h-i-i-n-s-s" | |
-2 letters: nighs, shins, sighs, signs, sings, sinhs. | |
-3 letters: ghis, gins, hins, hisn, hiss, nigh, nisi, shin, sigh, sign, sing, sinh, sins. | |
-4 letters: ghi, gin, hin, his, ins, sin, sis. | |
-5 letters: hi, in, is, sh, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-h-i-i-n-s-s" | |
+1 letter: fishings, hissings, insights, shindigs, swishing. | |
+2 letters: kingships, shielings, shillings, shippings, shirrings, shirtings, sightings, sphingids, squishing. | |
+3 letters: chastising, hindsights, hygienists, kingfishes, mightiness, misshaping, nightsides, schillings, stonishing, swishingly, whistlings. | |
+4 letters: astonishing, bakshishing, burnishings, distinguish, emphasising, flightiness, furnishings, girlishness, hairsprings, kingfishers, misphrasing, nightshirts, nightsticks, piggishness, publishings, shunpikings, sightliness, sightseeing, skirmishing, sphingosine, stablishing, weightiness, whisperings. | |
+5 letters: airtightness, almightiness, bonefishings, christenings, disrelishing, establishing, extinguishes, gunsmithings, hairdressing, hairstylings, histogenesis, hooliganisms, housesitting, knightliness, mightinesses, priggishness, schizogonies, scrimshawing, spaghettinis, spearfishing, sphingosines, sportfishing, sulphurising, sympathising, synthesizing, thinkingness, tigerishness, tinsmithings, unsightliest. | |
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