hissing

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of hiss

   “Our solid, shiny chairs, our immense, dingy sofas, our heavy mahogany tables and our cast-iron fenders, often bearing the initials of long-dead railway companies, likewise our plaster walls of chocolate and duck-egg green and our hissing gasoliers have their roots deep in our national history.”

adj

1. that produces or is accompanied with a hiss

   “At all times when kissing and such like things are begun, the woman should give a reply with a hissing sound.”

noun

1. The sound of a hiss.

   “The hissings and screamings of the vulgar against him as he moved forward on his stedfast course he heeded less than those of geese on a common.”