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"form": "more hissable",
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"ref": "2015, Cathy Elliott, A Stitch in Crime",
"text": "Thea could almost hiss out the name. In fact, the mayor's name was quite hissable.",
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"(colloquial) Capable of being pronounced with a hiss."
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"ref": "1890, Parry's Monthly Magazine, volume 6, page 29",
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