hss.

n.  a hiss used surreptitiously to get attention; see also hsst.

<A rich female voice answered from the darkness, “Hss.  Any idea when the next market is?”  —Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere.>

hsss.

interj.  a shushing sound.

<Hsss, Sister Condron shushed backwards.  —Alan Warner, The Sopranos: A Novel.>

n.  a sound of intimidation; also hssss.

<Hsss, fools, one bite from my fangs means death.  —Brian Jacques, Mossflower.>

n.  the warning hiss of a snake; see also hssss, hsss ssss.

<The snake was doing whatever snakes do early in the morning, and when Muka tried to get it to play there was a sharp hsss! and Muka came hopping out of the grass like a jackrabbit.  —Eknath Easwaran, The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living: Chapters 7 Through 12.>

hsss ssss.

(also hsss sssss.) n.  the hissing of a snake, as in If There Be Thorns by V. C. Andrews; see also hsss, hssss.

hssss.

n.  a cat’s hiss of vexation, as in the comic strip “PvP” by Scott R. Kurtz.

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