siss
See also: Siss
English
Etymology
From Middle English sissen, perhaps from Middle Dutch sissen, cissen or Middle Low German sissen (“to hiss; buzz”), of imitative origin. Cognate with Dutch sissen, German Low German zissen, German zischen.
Verb
siss (third-person singular simple present sisses, present participle sissing, simple past and past participle sissed)
- (US, colloquial, intransitive) To make a hissing sound.
- a flatiron hot enough to siss when touched with a wet finger
Derived terms
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for siss in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Estonian
Declension
Declension of siss (type riik)
singular | plural | |
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nominative | siss | sissid |
genitive | sissi | sisside |
partitive | sissi | sisse / sissisid |
illative | sissi / sississe | sissidesse |
inessive | sissis | sissides |
elative | sissist | sissidest |
allative | sissile | sissidele |
adessive | sissil | sissidel |
ablative | sissilt | sissidelt |
translative | sissiks | sissideks |
terminative | sissini | sissideni |
essive | sissina | sissidena |
abessive | sissita | sissideta |
comitative | sissiga | sissidega |
Derived terms
- sissisõda
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