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单词 sibilation
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sibilationn.

/sɪbɪˈleɪʃən/
Forms: Also 1800s sibill-.
Etymology: < late Latin sībilātio, noun of action < sībilāre. So French sibilation.
a. The action of hissing or whistling; a hissing or whistling sound.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > continuous or protracted sound > sibilant sound > [noun]
whistlingc897
hissinga1425
hiss1513
whissing1555
hizzing1582
sibilation1626
afflatus1753
siss1859
shish1881
sizzing1890
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §176 All Metals quenched in water give a Sibilation or hissing Sound.
1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician ix. 328 When children make a noise and sibilation as they suck the Milk.
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. at S [The letter] unhappily prevails in so many of our words that it produces in the ear of a foreigner a continued sibilation.
1802 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 13 10 Its sibillations are attached to its most necessary inflections.
1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess i. 20 He, with a long low sibilation, stared As blank as death in marble.
1892 W. H. Hudson Naturalist in La Plata 8 The sharp fitful sibilations of the dry wiry grasses on the barren places.
b. spec. Hissing as a sign of disapproval.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > [noun] > expression of disapproval > by sounds or exclamations
hootinga1225
hissingc1384
fie?1550
acclamation1602
hiss1602
hoot1612
catcall1749
catcallingc1781
scraping1785
sibilation1822
the big bird1825
boo hoo1825
booing1830
Kentish fire1834
boo-hooing1865
boo1884
slow handclap1904
tutting1929
slow handclapping1932
slow clap1937
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > other vocal sounds > [noun] > hissing > in disapproval
hissingc1384
hiss1602
goose1805
sibilation1822
1822 Examiner 109/2 The ecstasies of..the major part..set sibilation at defiance.
1854 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 76 703 The play was sent to Orcus..amidst hideous sibilation.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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