Snake or cat, on occasion

Usage examples of hisser.

Bailiffs were unsuccessful in their search for the hisser, and the examination was resumed.

The hisser had hissed his name, a sibilant whisper that made the name Dortmunder sound as though it were full of esses.

On this occasion, the hisser who spoke over the wire had not invited Weston to be present.

He admitted to himself that he would have enjoyed killing the man, but in the end he backed off, bleeding the compressed air out of the hisser as he let the other man move along with the crowd, continuing his ponderous trek.

Before the exposed Enforcer could speak a word, Laina jammed a hisser into his face.

A moment later, she spat a seed like a bullet into one of the hisser bins and listened with satisfaction to it dissolve.

Together they produced a child named Hisser, of indeterminate sex, whom they tried so very desperately to love, but who was, in fact, a hideous mutant with six legs, four arms, sucker pads on its hands and feet, a mouth half as big as its misshapen head, blazing red eyes, and an adorable mass of springy blond curls that once made Shirley Temple weep bitterly with envy.

When the ASPCA representative paid a surprise visit and interrupted Hisser at dinner a live-cat sandwich and a side of carrot slaw the jig was up.

The court-ordered seizure of Hisser was the blow that destroyed the Heffalope marriage.

Human Stupidity Bonds, the value of which soar with the rise of stupidity in the species, but fall with any indication of increasing human wisdom was inherited by his only child, Hisser Heffalope, ward of the state.

At the age of eighteen, having survived into more enlightened times, Hisser was released into society.

A secondary career as a cat rancher was far less successful, because Hisser routinely ate the profits.

A moment after Atvar finished his notes, the door hisser announced that she was there.