Definition of Hisser

1. Noun. Someone who communicates disapproval by hissing.

Generic synonyms: Communicator
Derivative terms: Hiss, Hiss

Definition of Hisser

1. one that hisses [n -S] - See also: hisses

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hisser

hisn
hispanic americans
hispanidad
hispanidads
hispanism
hispanisms
hispid
hispid flagella
hispid pocket mouse
hispidities
hispidity
hispidulous
hiss
hissed
hisself
hisser (current term)
hissers
hisses
hissie fit
hissie fits
hissier
hissies
hissiest
hissing
hissingly
hissings
hissy
hissy-fit
hissy-fits
hissy fit

Literary usage of Hisser

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1893)
"We reached hisser under a broiling sun ; and as there is no more shade to be got ... 4164 hisser is a clean-looking little town with dusty white roads and ..."

2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1892)
"We spent the night at Kalofer, and early the next morning started for Bania, and from thence, taking a road on our left, branched off to hisser, ..."

3. The Edinburgh Annual Register by Sir Walter Scott, Walter Scott (1827)
"Next there was a terrific uproar in front of the two-shilling gallery, against a lad, or young man, a solitary hisser, or alleged hisser, there; ..."

4. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood, John Christopher Atkinson (1872)
"Fr. hisser, Sw. hissa, Dan. heise, to hoist, distinct from Fr. hausser, It. alzare, ... The origin of hisser may be a representation of the heavy breath ..."

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