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Definition of Hisser
1. Noun. Someone who communicates disapproval by hissing.
Definition of Hisser
1. one that hisses [n -S] - See also: hisses
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hisser
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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