Definition of Hissies

1. Noun. (plural of hissy) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hissies

1. hissy [n] - See also: hissy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hissies

hispid
hispid flagella
hispid pocket mouse
hispidities
hispidity
hispidulous
hiss
hissed
hisself
hisser
hissers
hisses
hissie fit
hissie fits
hissier
hissies (current term)
hissiest
hissing
hissingly
hissings
hissy
hissy-fit
hissy-fits
hissy fit
hissy fits
hissyfit
hist
hist-
histamin

Literary usage of Hissies

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Century of Queens: With Sketches of Some Princes of Literature and Art (1873)
"In spite of this disparaging remark on the " hissies," as Elsie irreverently termed them, Erica sprang to the window and looked into the garden ..."

2. John Cheap the Chapman's Library: The Scottish Chap Literature of Last by John Cheap, Dougal Graham (1877)
"Wode, she said ye could do naething but wash mugs, and scour gentleman's bonny things, but hissies that is bred amang gentle houses, minds me of my mither's ..."

3. Scottish Chapbook Literature by William Harvey (1903)
"Wode, she said you could do naething but wash mugs and secure gentleman's bonny things; but hissies that is bred amang gentle houses minds me o' my mither's ..."

4. The Collected Writings of Dougal Graham, "Skellat" Bellman of Glasgow by Dougal Graham (1883)
"Fegs am a mind to try, but the sour saucy hissies 'ill no hae me, I ken well enough. Mither. Hae you lad, ay mony a hungry heart wad be blyth o' you; ..."

5. The Humorous Chap-books of Scotland by John Fraser (1873)
"... yet there gaed sic a tittle- tattling through the town, every auld wife tell'd anither o't, and a' the light hippit hissies that rins between towns at ..."

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