Meanings
present singular third person sisses · participle present sissing · participle past sissed · past sissed
- colloquialintransitiveTo make a hissing sound.
a flat-iron hot enough to siss when touched with a wet finger
Synonyms & antonyms
verbmake a sharp hissing sound, as if to show disapproval
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Middle Low Germansissen“to hiss; buzz”
- Middle Dutchsissen
- Middle Englishsissen
- Englishsiss
From Middle English sissen, perhaps from Middle Dutch sissen, cissen or Middle Low German sissen (“to hiss; buzz”), of imitative origin. Cognate with Dutch sissen, German Low German zissen, German zischen.
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