hiss

A sibilant sound, such as that made by a snake or escaping steam; an unvoiced fricative.

Their music frightful as the serpent’s hiss, And boding screech-owls make the concert full!

[…] over head the dismal hiss Of fiery Darts in flaming volies flew,

An expression of disapproval made using such a sound.

[…] in open disputations ye haue bene openly conuict, ye haue bene openly driuen out of the schole with hisses […]

1716, Joseph Addison, The Free-Holder, 16 April, 1716, London: D. Midwinter and J. Tonson, pp. 203-204, The Actors, in the midst of an innocent old Play, are often startled with unexpected Claps or Hisses; and do not know whether they have been talking like good Subjects, or have spoken Treason.

To make a hiss, a sibilant sound of air escaping.

As I started to poke it, the snake hissed at me.

The poor cat hissed as it backed away from the approaching man.

To call someone by hissing.

I stepped out of my tent in Marrakech one night to get a bar of candy and caught your dose of clap when that Wac I never even saw before hissed me into the bushes.

To condemn or express contempt (for someone or something) by hissing.

The crowd booed and hissed her off the stage.

If the tag-rag people did not clap him and hiss him, according as he pleased and displeased them, as they use to do the players in the theatre, I am no true man.

To utter (something) with a hissing sound.

Lies oft o’erthrown with ceaseless Venom spread, Still hiss out Scandal from their Hydra Head,

the long-necked geese of the world that are ever hissing dispraise […]

To move with a hissing sound.

The arrow hissed through the air.

The Troops of Troy recede with sudden Fear, While the swift Javelin hiss’d along in Air.