cissing

British  

/ ˈsɪsɪŋ /

noun

1. building trades the appearance of pinholes, craters, etc, in paintwork due to poor adhesion of the paint to the surface

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Example Sentences

“Freezes sharp; and, bless my heart, there’s a great ball of snow sticking to my boot,” saying which, the old gentleman, who had just been round the farmyard for the last time that night, went back into the passage and rubbed off the snow, while Uncle Joe, chuckling and laughing, walked up to the fireplace and scraped his shoes on the front bar, so that the pieces of hard snow began sputtering and cissing as they fell in the fire.

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There was a roast goose just up, and cissing away in the big pewter dish all amongst the gravy, with the stuffing a smelling that rich, it was enough to drive you mad.

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I dursen’t try and climb that tree again with the water all cissing up to get at me.”

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Rodd literally jumped in his alarm, for there was a tremendously wild cissing from the pan and a horrible suggestion therewith that Mrs Champernowne had been turning the rasher with so much energy that she had thrown the cooking slice on to the fire itself instead of into its native pan, while a sudden gush as of hot burning fat came up the little stairs.

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He touched the stun which I shew him, an di guess it made him sithe, for twas cissing hot.

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