hiss

名词 n. 动词 v.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A sibilant sound, such as that made by a snake or escaping steam; an unvoiced fricative.
    — Their music frightful as the serpent’s hiss, And boding screech-owls make the concert full!
  2. An expression of disapproval made using such a sound.
    — […] in open disputations ye haue bene openly conuict, ye haue bene openly driuen out of the schole with hisses […]
动词 v.
  1. To make a hiss, a sibilant sound of air escaping. intransitive
    — As I started to poke it, the snake hissed at me.
  2. To call someone by hissing. transitive
    — 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.
  3. To condemn or express contempt (for someone or something) by hissing. intransitive,transitive
    — The crowd booed and hissed her off the stage.
  4. To utter (something) with a hissing sound. transitive
    — Lies oft o’erthrown with ceaseless Venom spread, Still hiss out Scandal from their Hydra Head,
  5. To move with a hissing sound. intransitive
    — The arrow hissed through the air.
  6. To emit or eject (something) with a hissing sound. transitive
    — The man in white pyjamas hissed soda into his glass.
  7. To whisper, especially angrily or urgently. transitive
    — "Are you quite sure of it," she hissed into his ear, "Mr Fang, Junior?"

词形变化

hisses plural hisses present,singular,third-person hissing participle,present hissed participle,past hissed past

词源

词源 1
From Middle English hissen, probably of onomatopoeic origin (compare Arabic هَسْهَسَ (hashasa)). Compare Middle Dutch hissen, hisschen (“to chase away, shoo”), Middle Low German hissen (“to chase, hound, incite”).
词源 2
From Middle English hissen, probably of onomatopoeic origin (compare Arabic هَسْهَسَ (hashasa)). Compare Middle Dutch hissen, hisschen (“to chase away, shoo”), Middle Low German hissen (“to chase, hound, incite”).
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