siss

From Middle English sissen, perhaps from Middle Dutch sissen, cissen or Middle Low German sissen (“to hiss; buzz”), of imitative origin. Cognate with Dutch sissen, German Low German zissen, German zischen.

siss (plural sisses)

1. (colloquial) A hissing noise.

siss (third-person singular simple present sisses, present participle sissing, simple past and past participle sissed)

1. (colloquial, intransitive) To make a hissing sound.

   a flat-iron hot enough to siss when touched with a wet finger

• sizzle

• “siss”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• SSIS, SSIs, SSSI

From Russian шиш (šiš, “thief, vagabond”). Cognate to Finnish sissi.

siss (genitive sissi, partitive sissi)

1. partisan, guerilla
2. war-time thief

• sissisõda