Crossword-Solution: SIBILANT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Sibilant | a. | Making a hissing sound; uttered with a hissing sound; hissing; as, s, z, sh, and zh, are sibilant elementary sounds. |
| Sibilant | n. | A sibiliant letter. |
We have 11 clues for the answer “SIBILANT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Bane of lispers. | 1 answer |
| Having an S or hissing sound | 1 answer |
| Making a hissing sound | 1 answer |
| Sisyphus or syzygy, for instance. | 1 answer |
| Snakish-sounding | 1 answer |
| hissing sound characteristic | 1 answer |
| Like sissies? | 2 answers |
| A CRACKLING OR HISSING NOISE CAUSED BY ELECTRICAL INTERFERENCE | 10 answers |
| hissing | 18 answers |
| HISSING sound | 23 answers |
| Speech sound | 33 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with SIBILANT (5)
Again in the utter silence I heard that thin, sibilant note which spoke of intense suppressed excitement.
Buzzing.] [An onomatopÒia.] To make a low, continuous, humming or sibilant sound, like that made by bees with their wings.
There was a little stir, a swaying toward her, a sibilant murmur of sympathy from the crowded sitting-room as she passed through to the parlor where Rabbi Thalmann stood waiting, prayer book in hand, in front of that which was covered with flowers.
Dissonant murmurs first And sounds discordant from the tongues of men She utters, scarce articulate: the bay Of wolves, and barking as of dogs, were mixed With that fell chant; the screech of nightly owl Raising her hoarse complaint; the howl of beast And sibilant hiss of snake -- all these were there; And more -- the waft of waters on the rock, The sound of forests and the thunder peal.
The wind is too strong perhaps, and the trees are certainly too leafless for much of that wide rustle that we both remember; there is only a sharp, angry, sibilant hiss, like breath drawn with the strength of the elements through shut teeth, that one hears between the gusts only.
Quotes with SIBILANT (3)
Let’s put to rest one cliché. You can sell refrigerators to Eskimos. The people of Savoonga are Yupiks, the westernmost of the Eskimo tribes, closer to Siberians than American Eskimos in their appearance, and their customs, and their distinctive, liquidly sibilant native language. And, yes, they all have refrigerators. In the winter, food gets freezer burn if left out in the elements. Eskimos need refrigerators to keep their food warm.
History, lie of our lives, mire of our loins. Our sins, our souls. Hiss-tih-ree: the tip of the pen taking a trip of three steps (with one glide) down the chronicle to trap a slick, sibilant character. Hiss. (Ss.) Tih. Ree. He was a pig, a plain pig, in the morning, standing five feet ten on one hoof. He was a pig in slacks. He was a pig in school. He was a pig on the dotted line. But in my eyes it’s always the ones signing dotted lines that become pigs. Did this pig have a p…
Come in, Martise." Silhara's voice was almost sibilant in the darkness as he tagged on her hand. "There are no soul eaters here." No, she thought. Only heart thieves.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1951–1974).