Their music frightful as the serpent’shiss, And boding screech-owls make the concert full!
1667,John Milton, “Book VI”, inParadise Lost.[…], London:[…] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker[…];[a]nd by Robert Boulter[…];[a]nd Matthias Walker,[…],→OCLC; republished asParadise Lost in Ten Books:[…], London: Basil Montagu Pickering[…],1873,→OCLC, lines212-213:
[…] over head the dismalhiss Of fiery Darts in flaming volies flew,
A hundred Reeds, of a prodigious Growth, Scarce made a Pipe, proportion’d to his Mouth: Which, when he gave it Wind, the Rocks around, And watry Plains, the dreadfulHiss resound.
[…] in open disputations ye haue bene openly conuict, ye haue bene openly driuen out of the schole withhisses[…]
1716,Joseph Addison,The Free-Holder, 16 April, 1716, London: D. Midwinter and J. Tonson, pp. 203-204,[2]
The Actors, in the midst of an innocent old Play, are often startled with unexpected Claps orHisses; and do not know whether they have been talking like good Subjects, or have spoken Treason.
Once or twice she was encored five and six times in succession, and received withhisses when she appeared, and discharged withhisses and laughter when she had finished—then instantly encored and insulted again!
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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 andhisseth in the trowgh.
The man came back, and said something in a lower voice, to which the other replied, “she sleeps,” or Ellena was deceived by thehissing consonants of some other words.
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 beforehissed me into the bushes.
(transitive,intransitive) To condemn or express contempt (for someone or something) by hissing.
If the tag-rag people did not clap him andhiss 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 shallhiss at thee[…]
1653,Henry More, chapter XII, inAn Antidote against Atheisme, or An Appeal to the Natural Faculties of the Minde of Man, whether There Be Not a God, London:[…] Roger Daniel,[…],→OCLC, book II,page102:
VVherefore thisReligious affection vvhich nature has implanted, and as ſtrongly rooted in Man as the feare of death or the love of vvomen, vvould be the moſt enormous ſlip or bungle ſhe could commit, ſo that ſhe vvould ſo ſhamefully faile in the laſt Act, in this contrivance of the nature of Man, that inſtead of aPlaudite ſhe vvould deſerve to behiſſed off the Stage.
1793,Elizabeth Inchbald,Every One Has His Fault[4], London: G.G.J. and J. Robinson, Prologue:
The Play, perhaps, has many things amiss: Well, let us then reduce the point to this, Let only those that have no failings,hiss.
1803,Robert Charles Dallas,The History of the Maroons[5], London: Longman and Rees, Volume 1, Letter 5, p. 145:
As the culprits went through the town and plantations they were laughed at,hissed, and hooted by the slaves[…]
the long-necked geese of the world that are everhissing dispraise[…]
2011 December 14, John Elkington, “John Elkington”, inThe Guardian[8]:
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, someonehissed 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."
1718,Alexander Pope, transl.,TheIliad ofHomer[9], London: Bernard Lintott,Volume 4, Book 15, lines 690-691, p. 192:
The Troops ofTroy recede with sudden Fear, While the swift Javelinhiss’d along in Air.
1815,William Wordsworth, “Influence of Natural Objects”, inPoems by William Wordsworth[10], volume 1, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, page46:
All shod with steel Wehissed along the polished ice[…]
The final double consonant in Azerbaijani nouns is usually reduced in the locative and ablative singular and plural;hiss andküll are exceptions to this rule, as they would otherwise be confused withhis andkül (“Azərbaycan dilində hansı sözlərin yazılışının dəyişəcəyi açıqlanıb”, inReport.az[16], January 2018).
