ssss.

interj.  an exhalation of sensual pleasure.

<“Ssss, do that again, baby,” she begged.  —Michael Baisden, The Maintenance Man: A Novel.>

interj.  the startling hiss of an imprisoned Dread Gnome, as in The Shadowlands by Emily Rodda.


n.  a “deep but soft” sound “like the echo of the ocean inside a seashell” (Donna Farki, Yoga Mind, Body & Spirit: A Return to Wholeness).

Ssss.

n.  a “Sand wedge” golf club, as discussed in In the Loop: A Crash Course in the Golf Culture by John Renslow.

ssss.

n.  a shushing sound; see also Shh, shhhht, ssssss-ssssssshhh.

<“Ssss!”  She held a hand up, shushing me, her eyes focusing in the way people do when someone picks up the phone on the other end.  —Sue Grafton, C is for Corpse.>

n.  the hiss of a non-spotted snake, as in Just So Stories by Ruyard Kipling.


n.  the sound of “a sudden fiery splash of lava burst[ing] from the volcano floor” in Journey to the Volcano Palace by Tony Abbott.


n.  the sound of a breath.

<Her mother breathes, “Ssss, be strong.”  —Gus Lee, Chasing Hepburn: A Memoir of Shanghai, Hollywood, and a Chinese Family’s Fight for Freedom.>

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