HISSING

n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

The act of emitting a hiss or hisses.

2.
n.

The occasion of contempt; the object of scorn and derision. [Archaic] I will make this city desolate, and a hissing. Jer. xix. 8.


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