| 释义 |
hissy, a.|ˈhɪsɪ|
[f. hiss n. + -y1.]
Consisting of a hiss; of a sound, resembling that of a hiss.
1905J. Masefield Tarpaulin Muster (1907) 171 Snakes,..laughing in a sort of hissy chuckle. 1948I. Brown No Idle Words 42 Cypress, though rather a ‘hissy’ word.
▸ Also 19– hissie, hussy, huzzy. n. U.S. Perhaps influenced by hysteric n. = hissy fit n. at Additions.
1934Amer. Speech 9 71 Hissy is probably provincial slang. I have heard it for eight or ten years. He threw a hissy or He had a hissy means that a person in question was very disturbed and very angry. 1949Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. xi. 7 She had a hissy when I told her she couldn't go. 1973N.Y. Times 13 July 25, I wasn't all that keen about him riding bulls, but he could do a good job so I never throwed a hissy about it. 1992C. McCarthy All Pretty Horses (1993) i. 72 Rawlins will pitch a pure hissy when he sees you, he said.
▸ hissy fit n. chiefly U.S. a fit of temper, an angry outburst, a tantrum.
1967in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. (1991) II. 1021/2 Pitched a *hissy-fit. 1978A. Maupin Tales of City 5 When I told my mom I was moving to San Francisco, she had an absolute hissy-fit! 1981F. Flagg Coming Attractions 21 Momma always looks like she is on the verge of a hissy fit, but that's mainly because when she was eighteen, she stuck her head in a gas oven looking at some biscuits and blew her eyebrows off. 1999Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 22 Nov. 24/8 Elton John threw a hissy fit at Winnipeg Airport, Canada, after customs officers took almost two hours to clear his five-person entourage. |