hiss

1. (intransitive) To make a hiss, a sibilant sound of air escaping.Examples: "As I started to poke it, the snake hissed at me."; "The poor cat hissed as it backed away from the approaching man."; "And in his wound the seared blood did make a gréeuous sound, As when a peece of stéele red who tane vp with tongs is drownd In water by the smith, it spirts and hisseth in the trowgh."Synonyms: fizzle, fizzintransitive

2. (transitive) To call someone by hissing.Examples: "I stepped out of my tent in Marrakech one night to get a bar of candy and caught your dose of clap when that Wac I never even saw before hissed me into the bushes."transitive

3. (transitive, intransitive) To condemn or express contempt (for someone or something) by hissing.Examples: "The crowd booed and hissed her off the stage."; "If the tag-rag people did not clap him and hiss him, according as he pleased and displeased them, as they use to do the players in the theatre, I am no true man."; "The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee […]"intransitivetransitive

4. (transitive) To utter (something) with a hissing sound.Examples: "Lies oft o’erthrown with ceaseless Venom spread, Still hiss out Scandal from their Hydra Head,"; "the long-necked geese of the world that are ever hissing dispraise […]"; "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.""transitive

5. (intransitive) To move with a hissing sound.Examples: "The arrow hissed through the air."; "The Troops of Troy recede with sudden Fear, While the swift Javelin hiss’d along in Air."; "All shod with steel We hissed along the polished ice […]"intransitive

6. (transitive) To emit or eject (something) with a hissing sound.Examples: "The man in white pyjamas hissed soda into his glass."; "The radiator bubbled and hissed steam."; "He hissed air intently through a gap in his upper teeth."transitive