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tss

[t͡sːː]

tss interjection: a hissing sound.

Interjection

  1. A hissing sound.
    • When the woman held the sausage over the open fire, the drops of fat went tss-tsss on the coals and the flames turned a lovely blue colour.1964, Felix Vincent Lategan, Michael Wallendorf Smuts, Hymne Weiss, Afrikaans Short Stories, page 173
    • "Tss tss!" the girl hissed softly through her teeth. The monkey turned, leaped directly onto her shoulder, and gazed around […]2011, Dianne Hofmeyr, Eye of the Moon

Noun (1) capitalized: TSS

TSS (countable and uncountable, plural TSSs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of toxic shock syndrome.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of total suspended solids: a measure of water quality.
  3. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of total sum of squares.

Noun (2) capitalized: TSs

TSs

  1. (plural) plural of TS

Forms of tss

Interjection
alternative formtsss
Noun
pluralTSSs

Origin of tss

Imitative.

Phrases with tss

Questions about tss

What does tss mean?
Tss means a hissing sound.
What part of speech is tss?
Tss can be an interjection or a noun.
How do you pronounce tss?
Tss is pronounced [t͡sːː].

Words near tss in the dictionary

  1. tspt.
  2. TSR
  3. TSRA
  4. TSRP
  5. TSRs
  6. tss
  7. TSSA
  8. TSSCI
  9. tsss
  10. tst
  11. TSTL

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tss (page history and authors); TSS (page history and authors); TSs (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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