sibilatev.
/ˈsɪbɪleɪt/ 1. intransitive. To hiss; to utter a hissing sound.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > other vocal sounds > [verb (intransitive)] > hiss
sibilate1656
whish1842
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Sibilate, to whistle or hiss.
1823 Examiner 332/1 The disposition to sibilate became uncontroulable.
1863 H. W. Bates Naturalist on River Amazons I. iv. 120 Its voice is a harsh, grating hiss; it makes the noise when alarmed, all the individuals sibilating as they fly..away.
2. transitive.
a. To announce or say with a hissing sound.
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the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > say in a particular manner [verb (transitive)] > say in other sort of manner
rifta1400
abraida1500
rumblec1520
mince1549
roll1561
slaver1599
troll1631
yawn1718
buzz1763
gurgle1805
namby-pamby1812
sibilate1837
ripple1890
nicker1929
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > other vocal sounds > [verb (transitive)] > hiss
sibilate1837
the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > speech sound by manner > [verb (transitive)] > spirant > sibilant
assibilate1844
buzz1877
sibilate1903
1837 New Monthly Mag. 49 577 The ‘Goose and Gridiron’ sibillates the joys of supper.
1903 K. D. Wiggin Rebecca Sunnybrook Farm xix. 199 ‘How about cookies?’ ‘Do you think it's worth while?’ sibilated Miss Miranda.
1910 O. Browning Mem. Sixty Years xx. 318 Two portly gentlemen..turned round towards me, hissed violently and sibilated the word ‘Poet’ thinking, I suppose, that I was Robert.
b. To assail (an actor) with hissing.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > perform [verb (transitive)] > audience reaction
explose?c1550
explode1563
exsibilate1601
be-Roscius1774
to get the (big) bird1825
goose1838
sibilate1864
bird1927
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > disapprove of [verb (transitive)] > express disapproval of > by sound or exclamation
hootc1175
to clap out1550
explose?c1550
explode1563
hiss1598
exsibilate1601
to hum up, down1642
out-hiss1647
chuckle1681
catcall1700
scrape1773
groan1799
to get the (big) bird1825
boo1833
fie-fie1836
goose1838
sibilate1864
cluck1916
bird1927
slow handclap1949
tsk-tsk1966
tut1972
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > other vocal sounds > [verb (transitive)] > hiss > in disapproval
hiss1598
goose1838
sibilate1864
1864 Daily Tel. 28 Dec. 5/1 Vociferous tragedians who would now be sibilated by a Victoria gallery.
c. To make sibilant.
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1879 C. T. Lewis & C. Short Lat. Dict. Serum,..prob. sibilated from ὀρός.
1888 J. E. King & C. Cookson Princ. Sound & Inflexion Greek & Lat. 212 Limus, English slime (but lime, Anglo-Saxon lím, shows the non-sibilated root).
Derivatives
ˈsibilating adj.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > continuous or protracted sound > sibilant sound > [adjective]
hissinga1547
whissing1555
hizzing1582
sibilous1768
sibilating1782
sibilant1802
shushing1929
shush-shush1954
1782 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music II. 309 Why the..Spanish [should have] so many sibillating [endings].
1831 Fraser's Mag. 3 399 He then proceeds..in a circumlocutory sibillating whisper.
ˈsibilatingly adv.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > continuous or protracted sound > sibilant sound > [adverb]
hissingly1611
hissing hot1771
sibilatingly1862
sibilantly1891
1862 G. A. Sala Accepted Addr. 190 The pit began to be sibilatingly cat-calling, uproarious.
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