单词 | hish |
释义 | hishn. The rushing or whishing noise made by a scythe cutting grass, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > continuous or protracted sound > sibilant sound > [noun] > rushing sibilant sound > swish whish1808 swish1820 swish, swish1833 swishing1860 whoosh1880 swoosh1885 wheep1891 hish1893 whooshing1976 1893 ‘M. Gray’ Last Sentence III. iii. xviii. 251 The hish of falling swathes. 1893 ‘M. Gray’ Last Sentence III. iii. xviii. 252 ‘Hish, hish!’ went the scythes. Derivatives hish v.2 (intransitive) to make this sound. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > continuous or protracted sound > sibilant sound > [verb (intransitive)] > rushing sibilant sound > swish whish1565 whush1581 swish1756 whoosh1856 swoosh1867 hish1893 shush1975 1893 ‘M. Gray’ Last Sentence III. iii. xiv. 188 The gardener's scythe hishing through the grass. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online September 2018). hishv.1 dialect. 1. intransitive. = hiss v. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > continuous or protracted sound > sibilant sound > [verb (intransitive)] sissa1300 hish1388 hissc1400 hizzle1582 hizz1608 whiss1654 sistle1849 shish1881 1388 Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) 2 Chron. xxix. 8 [The Lord] gaf hem in to stiryng, and in to perischyng, and in to hisshing [1382 whistlyng, L. in sibilum]. 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) xiii. xxvi. 458 The grekes tell that this fisshe..conceyuyth of the serpent, and therfore fisshars calle it wyth hysshynge and whystlyng. 1530 Bible (Tyndale) Num. Prol., in Wks. (Parker Soc.) I. 432 So manifestly proved that they cannot once hish against it. 2. To make a hissing noise to hound on a dog. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > other vocal sounds > [verb (intransitive)] > hiss > to dog hish1860 1860 ‘G. Eliot’ Mill on Floss II. v. ii. 235 I might hish at him by th'hour together, before he'd fly at a real gentlewoman like you. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1893v.11388 |
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