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tiss

tiss verb: to make a hissing sound.

Verb

tiss (third-person singular simple present tisses, present participle tissing, simple past and past participle tissed)

  1. (nonce-word) To make a hissing sound.
    • He ran along the edge, quickening at the shout of the kennel-boy, and had almost reached the island’s tail when Bite’m pinned him in the shoulder. Tissing through his open mouth, Tarka rolled and fought with the terriers.1927, Henry William Williamson, Tarka the Otter, Chapter 19
    • His psalms were sung to the tissing larch, his hymns to the purple heath.1962, R F Delderfield, The Unjust Skies (also 1980 Diana), Afterglow

Forms of tiss

third-person singular presenttisses
present participletissing
past participletissed
pasttissed

Questions about tiss

What does tiss mean?
Tiss means to make a hissing sound.
What part of speech is tiss?
Tiss is a verb.
What is the past tense of tiss?
The past tense of tiss is tissed.

Words near tiss in the dictionary

  1. tisotumab
  2. tisotumab vedotin
  3. TISP
  4. Tisquantum
  5. Tisri
  6. tiss
  7. Tissa
  8. Tisserant
  9. tissick
  10. tissicks
  11. tissies

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