hiss
verb (used without object)
to make or emit a sharp sound like that of the letter s prolonged, as a snake does, or as steam does when forced under pressure through a small opening.
hisser
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a word derived from
hiss.
Example Sentences
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Try such sentences as this on your hisser: "I will not go," he hissed.
From The Style Book of The Detroit News by The Detroit News
But here the hisser is not so safe, nor the hissee—to coin a convenient word—so defenceless.
From Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878 by Various
They also took the worst, wherever a hisser might hide.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 01 Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great by Elbert Hubbard
