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English
Verb
whiss (third-person singular simple present whisses, present participle whissing, simple past and past participle whissed)
- Obsolete form of whiz.
1774, Paulin Huggett Pearce, The Warrior's Swimming Book, and Ladies' Guide, page 13:Their fatal bullets whissed, the green sward dyed,
The horses reared and plunged in maddening pain, br> And stumbling, fell upon the crimson plain.
1889, The Tablet, volume 74, page 996:[…] more shots whissed past, going over the heads of himself and his companions […]