sibilate

Definitions


[ˈsɪbɪleɪt], (Verb)

Definitions:
- utter with a hissing sound
(e.g: two gentlemen turned round to me and sibilated the word ‘Poet’)


Phrases:

Origin:
mid 17th century: from Latin sibilat- ‘hissed, whistled’, from the verb sibilare




definition by Oxford Dictionaries