0 present participle of hiss --
1 to make a noise like a long s sound: --
"Shut up, Tom!" she hissed.
People in the audience were hissing their disapproval.
The iron was hissing and spluttering.
Why do snakes hiss?
Had someone forgotten that some people have to sleep for some hours during the day and that the hissing of steam does not make it easy?
Voltaire said that taxation was the art of plucking a goose to obtain the maximum amount of feathers with the least amount of hissing.
There is no question but that post-war credits in recent years have provoked a great deal of hissing—indeed, more than is healthy.
I am worried about some of the rumours about people hissing behind their hands about this and that.
At the moment, the feathers are still being plucked, but the hissing is getting considerably louder, even though it is perhaps falling on deaf ears.
Secondly, the name is a tongue twister; it is, in fact, a hissing and an abomination.
Indeed, they were greeted with booing and hissing.
When had finished my turn, would you believe it, that ignorant public harked back to the singer and started hissing and booing.
