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单词 hish
释义

hishn.

Etymology: Echoic.
The rushing or whishing noise made by a scythe cutting grass, etc.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > continuous or protracted sound > sibilant sound > [noun] > rushing sibilant sound > swish
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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.
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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
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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

/hɪʃ/
Etymology: Echoic: compare hiss v. With sense 2 compare also Middle Dutch hissen, hisscen, in Kilian also hisschen, to hound on a dog, to instigate, Middle Low German hissen, hitsen, Dutch hitsen.
dialect.
1. intransitive. = hiss v.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > continuous or protracted sound > sibilant sound > [verb (intransitive)]
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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.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > other vocal sounds > [verb (intransitive)] > hiss > to dog
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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).
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