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Definitioner
Substantiv
- A high-pitched sound made by a snake, cat, escaping steam, etc.
- An expression of disapproval made to sound like the noise of a snake.
Verb
- (intransitive) To make a hissing sound.
- (transitive) To condemn or express contempt for by hissing.
- (transitive) To utter with a hissing sound.
Exempel
- As I started to poke it, the snake hissed at me.
- The arrow hissed through the air.
- It turns out that the driver of the red Ferrari that caused the crash wasn't, as I first guessed, a youngster, but a 60-year-old. Clearly, he had energy to spare, which was more than could be said about a panel I listened to around the same time as the crash. Indeed, someone hissed in my ear during a First Magazine awards ceremony in London's imposing Marlborough House on 7 December: "What we need is more old white men on the stage."
- The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee.
- Shod with steel, / We hissed along the polished ice.
- if the tag-rag people did not clap him and hiss him, according as he pleased and displeased them
- the long-necked geese of the world that are ever hissing dispraise
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