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hissable

adj

Etymology

From hiss + -able.

  1. inherited from hissen
  2. suffixed as hissable — “hiss + able”

Definitions

  1. Capable of being pronounced with a hiss.

    • Thea could almost hiss out the name. In fact, the mayor's name was quite hissable.

  2. Deserving to be hissed or booed

    Deserving to be hissed or booed; villainous.

    • The French apply the adjective sifflable (hissable) to bad plays and bad actors.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for hissable. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA