0 present participle of hiss
1 to make a noise like a long s sound:
Why do snakes hiss?
The iron was hissing and spluttering.
People in the audience were hissing their disapproval.
"Shut up, Tom!" she hissed.
The suspicion figuring in this hissing noise interrupts the process of understanding and thus intervenes in the epistemology of hermeneutics.
All that land resounded with the hissing of the serpents, and in addition there was no small terror to us from them.
The founder's analysis of the political situation which necessitated the new organization is illuminating: 'the yavan-snakes reared on the milk of nonco-operation were provoking riots with their poisonous hissing'.
Hissing reminds us where this dialogue is taking place, and incanted phrases from the male voices are met by gently dropping ones from the female ones, sybillants to the fore.
Meanwhile, the audience is hissing and booing and throwing things at the curtain.
Its members are intolerant, bigoted, and they are not even prepared to sit and listen without hissing and making animal-type noises.
All they did was to respond with applause when they agreed with a comment and with hissing when they did not.
When had finished my turn, would you believe it, that ignorant public harked back to the singer and started hissing and booing.
