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whiss

whiss is the obsolete form of whiz.

Meaning of whiz

Verb

whiz (third-person singular simple present whizzes, present participle whizzing, simple past and past participle whizzed)

  1. (US) To make a whirring or hissing sound, similar to that of an object speeding through the air.
  2. (US) To rush or move swiftly with such a sound.
  3. (US) To throw or spin rapidly.
    • I whizzed the ball past the catcher.
  4. (US, slang, vulgar) To urinate.
    • We whizzed in the bushes.

See all 9 meanings of whiz

Forms of whiss

third-person singular presentwhisses
present participlewhissing
past participlewhissed
pastwhissed

Questions about whiss

What is whiss the obsolete form of?
Whiss is the obsolete form of whiz.

Words near whiss in the dictionary

  1. whispery
  2. whispovirus
  3. whispoviruses
  4. whisps
  5. whispy
  6. whiss
  7. whissed
  8. Whissendine
  9. whisses
  10. whissing
  11. Whisson

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Adapted from Wiktionary: whiss (page history and authors); whiz (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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