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▪ I. hissing, vbl. n.|ˈhɪsɪŋ|
[f. hiss v. + -ing1.]
1. The action of the verb hiss; the production of a sibilant sound; sibilation. With a and pl. An instance of this; a hiss.
1388Wyclif Judges v. 16 That thou here the hissyngis of flockis. 1535Coverdale 1 Kings xix. 12 After the fyre came there a styll softe hyssinge [1388 Wyclif issyng]. 1656tr. Hobbes' Elem. Philos. (1839) 489 The breath blown with violence from the mouth makes a hissing, because in going out it rakes the superficies of the lips, whose reaction against the force of the breath is not sensible. 1711Addison Spect. No. 135 ⁋7 That hissing in our Language, which is taken so much notice of by Foreigners. 1810Shelley Zastrozzi xiii, The wind..whispered in low hissings among the withered shrubs.
2. The utterance of a hiss or hisses as a sign of disapproval or detestation.
1382Wyclif Micah vi. 16 Y shulde ȝeue thee in to perdicioun, and men dwellynge in it in to hissyng. 1597Middleton Wisdom of Solomon vii. 15, I rather look for clapping than for hissing. a1719Addison Playhouse (R.), Thundering claps and dreadful hissings rise.
3. concr. An occasion or object of expressed opprobrium. arch.
1388Wyclif Jer. li. 37 Babiloyne schal be..the dwellyng of dragouns, wondryng and hissyng [1382 whistling]. 1560Bible (Genev.) Jer. xix. 8, I wil make this citie desolate and an hissing. 1873H. Rogers Orig. Bible i. 51 That the Jews would at last become a hissing and a by-word among the nations.
4. Comb. hissing-stock (after laughing-stock), an object of expressed opprobrium or scorn.
1648Petit. Eastern Ass. 4 To make our selves an hissing-stocke to Papists.
▪ II. ˈhissing, ppl. a.
[f. hiss v. + -ing2.]
a. That hisses (in the senses of the verb).
a1547Surrey æneid ii. (R.), Whoes waltring tongs did lick their hissing mouthes. 1590Spenser F.Q. i. ii. 9 For her he hated as the hissing snake. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iv. 250 Others to quench the hissing Mass prepare. 1784Cowper Task iv. 38 While the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column. 1834Blackw. Mag. XXXVI. 484/2 The hissing iron became of a dull red. 1922[see click n.1 1 b]. 1936Bell Syst. Techn. Jrnl. XV. 197 If such a resistance element is in a current-carrying circuit associated with a telephone receiver or loud speaker..a steady hissing noise which sounds like that due to shot effect or thermal agitation of electric charge is heard.
b. Of sounds: Sibilant, sibilated.
1697Dryden æneid xi. 820 He drowned One hissing letter in a softer sound. 1741Richardson Pamela (1824) I. xxix. 289 Methinks there is such a hissing sound in the word sister, that I cannot abide it. 1855Bain Senses & Int. ii. ii. §15 The hissing sound of s, the burring of the r, the hum of the m, are well marked modes of producing variety of effect.
c. advb. in phr. hissing hot.
1771Contemplative Man I. 50 He sent them both hissing hot into the other World.
d. Comb. hissing adder, sand-snake (see quots.); hissing arc, an electric arc which emits a hissing sound.
1931R. L. Ditmars Snakes of World vii. 72 H[eterodon] contortrix is the common eastern species [sc. of hognosed snake] found from Massachusetts to Florida and westward to Minnesota and Texas. It is known as the Flat-headed ‘Adder’, Hissing ‘Adder’, and other names in keeping with its antics.
1895Electrician 18 Jan. 338/2 The potential difference for hissing arcs increases with length of arc, but appears to be fairly constant for a given length of arc... One talks of hissing, however, as if there were only one sort of hissing, whereas really there are at least two, with very different significations. 1941J. D. Cobine Gaseous Conductors 293 The high-pressure carbon arc is seen to have two characteristics, one of hyperbolic shape for a silent arc, and the other, essentially linear, for a hissing arc.
1910F. W. Fitzsimons Snakes S. Afr. iii. 54/2 Psammophis sibilans. Hissing Sand Snake... Distribution: Tropical Africa and Egypt, Rhodesia, Transvaal, Zululand, Port Elizabeth. 1954J. A. Pringle Common Snakes 20 Hissing Sand-Snake. Psammophis sibilans..occurs in all the provinces of the Union [sc. of South Africa] except the Cape.
Hence ˈhissingly adv.
1611Cotgr., Sifflantement, hissingly, with a whistling sound. |