hissing

Etymology

verb

1. present participle and gerund of hiss
   Our solid, shiny chairs, our immense, dingy sofas, our heavy mahogany tables and our cast-iron fenders, often bearing the initials of long-dead railway companies, likewise our plaster walls of chocolate and duck-egg green and our hissing gasoliers have their roots deep in our national history. 1941 August, C. Hamilton Ellis, “The English Station”, in Railway Magazine, page 357

noun

1. The sound of a hiss.
   The hissings and screamings of the vulgar against him as he moved forward on his stedfast course he heeded less than those of geese on a common. 1875, John Lothrop Motley, The Life and Death of John of Barneveld Advocate of Holland