fissle
/ˈfɪs(ə)l
/verb [no object] Scottish & Irish
Make a rustling sound: straw fissled in the darkness [with object]: people who fissle sweet wrappers at the intense moments of a film...
- There are few things more aggravating on a perfectly quiet hill than the noise of one's own legs, encased in synthetic fibres, fissling like crisp packets.
- He heard a fissling noise beneath him and wondered what it was.
- The sweet munchers and chatterers were out in force, loudly fissling their way through the evening.
Origin
Early 18th century: imitative of the sound (compare with fizzle).
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