Sean Booth

It just comes down to taste at the end of the day, and that's something you can't really analyze. Yeah, I think to have it all there is basically best, regardless of whether there's hiss there as well.

English Musician

Neil Cavuto

The other day at a drive-through, I reminded the teenage girl serving me that she forgot my drinks. She looked at me, hissed, rolled her eyes, and then took her sweet time getting me the sodas.

American Journalist

Dick Dale

When I started surfing, you'd hear this neat rumbling sound when you took off and go for the drop, and when the wave is lipping up over the top of you, it makes this hissing sound.

American Musician

T Bone Burnett

It's also ironic that in the old days of tape and tape hiss and vinyl records and surface noise, we were always trying to get records louder and louder to overcome that.

James Dean

Studying cows, pigs and chickens can help an actor develop his character. There are a lot of things I learned from animals. One was that they couldn't hiss or boo me.

Actor

Emmanuel Macron

Never boo or hiss at my rallies. That is for people with no hope.

French Politician

Maria Callas

When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I'm slipping.

Greek Musician

Aesop

Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.

Greek Author

Philip James Bailey

Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.

English Poet

Natasia Demetriou

English Comedian

Use 'hiss' to imitate the actual sound made by animals or objects for vivid description.

Imitative Sound

'Hiss' often suggests annoyance or something unwelcome, like danger or discomfort.

Negative Atmosphere

People 'hiss' when they are trying to suppress their voice in anger or irritation.

Anger Expression

When 'hiss' describes speech, it's often in a close setting where overt anger might be inappropriate.

Intimate Anger

A 'hiss' can indicate collective disapproval, usually in a public or group setting.

Public Disapproval

The act of hissing can demonstrate contempt or disdain without using words.

Expressing Contempt

As a noun, 'hiss' is onomatopoeic, meaning it represents the sound itself.

Onomatopoeic Usage

'Hiss' is commonly used to describe the sound of gas or air leaking from somewhere.

Indicating a Leak

'Hiss' as a noun can signal group rejection or disapproval, similar to booing.

Sign of Rejection

In theater or performances, a hiss can be a planned or spontaneous audience response.

Audience Response

 had their little altercation early and the one honey that was there ran for its life it just tucked and ran as far as it could to try and get out of there I think that hyenas still running when it heard all the growling and hissing and kind of snarling that was going on and two lipids bear barreling down towards it and so just ran off and so no they

Safari Live - Day 246 PIPE...

 and jumped into somebody else's car, it might not turn out the same way -- she might get shot for that. So we knew we had to react quickly. And the only way we thought we could without scaring her is to try and simulate a growl like her mother would make -- a hiss and a sound.

Beverly + Dereck...

 world to look for the fastest magma on earth because the hope and all of this is that we could hear it coming magma doesn't move quietly it makes noises it makes little earthquakes just like the self your bottle when we crack it you can hear it hiss maybe the hist makes

The secrets in volcanic...

 he's striking there and hissing might well try it oh yes look at that trying to bite into the leather of my glove thankfully it's too tougher and to give these fangs into just alongside these chunks of grass you get a lot of very soft sand accumulating the wind blows in

Tracking a Sidewinder...

 rattlesnake live in the Western Hemisphere rattlesnakes are pit vipers so-called because of the heat sensing pits located on either side of their heads these helped the snakes locate prey even in the dead of night but they're even better known for the hiss

Rattlesnake vs. Rat PIPE...

 full of barbers and prostitutes. Suddenly, all the men are leaving with Dad. It's the second hour and time for him to be in court with a sturdy audience of clients to applaud his rhetoric and hiss at his opponent. The house is now quieter.

Four sisters in Ancient...

 many of you sang new piece of the most amazing sounds there are and all three of them making different sounds aren't they ting garner with his swing ton d with her growling and shall humble with her hissing and chuffing just gonna call

Safari Live - Day 348 PIPE...

 not really sure well sky I think if you're a human being and your mother I started to hiss and growl at you'd be deeply confusing and unsettling but of course this is normal with leopards is what they do and it's

Safari Live - Day 186 PIPE...

 so-called because of the heat sensing pits located on either side of their heads these helpless makes locate prey even in the dead of night but they're even better known for the hiss of their famous tails

 you can't see here just underground lies one of the world's largest volcanoes it reveals itself at the surface in menacing ways with mud pots that belch toxic gas and fumaroles that hiss with

Hiss

Imitative Sound

Negative Atmosphere

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