shishint.
/ʃɪʃ/ Onomatopoeic representation of a prolonged or reiterated hissing sound. Hence also n.v. Cf. sh n.1.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > continuous or protracted sound > sibilant sound > [noun]
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > continuous or protracted sound > sibilant sound > [verb (intransitive)]
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > continuous or protracted sound > sibilant sound > [interjection]
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1881 C. E. L. Riddell Alaric Spencely II. 166 Which startled the wild fowl in Abbey Marsh, and caused them..to rend the silence of the night with the schisch and schurr of their wings.
1904 E. Nesbit Phoenix & Carpet xi. 211 Most of the people [in the theatre] hissed, or said ‘Shish!’
1908 Daily Chron. 3 June 1/6 [He] was washing himself..and ‘shishing’ as he rubbed himself like an ostler with a horse.
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