ssssst.

(also sssst sssst, ssssssst, sssssssst, ssssssssssssssssst, sssssssssssssssssssst.)  n.  the sound of a telescope racing “to catch up with the Earth’s rotation,” as in Shoemaker by Levy: The Man Who Made an Impact  by David H. Levy.

sssst.

n.  the hissing sound of a duck, as in The Little Yellow Duck and His Three Smiling Friends by Gail Novak.


n.  the sound of squirting water in a Chinese laundry, as described in The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston.

ssst.

n.  the sound of an android or robot malfunctioning, as in The Metallic Touch; see vzzkt.

ssstt.

n.  an attention-grabbing sound; a variation of psst, as The Letterseeker by Stan McDaniel; see also fsst, psss, pssst, psst, ssss.

<Ssstt! ...  Don! Look!  —Robert Saar, Trout Days and Onion Nights.>

sszzzl.

n.  the sizzle of “discharges of highly-concentrated flames at [a] temperature deemed sufficient to incinerate even [a] female mutant’s apparently heat-resistant flesh” (Rich Buckler, Marvel Super-Heroes 6).

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