verb
[no object]Scottish, IrishMake a rustling sound.
‘straw fissled in the darkness’- ‘people who fissle sweet wrappers at the intense moments of a film’
- ‘There are few things more aggravating on a perfectly quiet hill than the noise of one's own legs, encased in synthetic fibres, fissling like crisp packets.’
- ‘He heard a fissling noise beneath him and wondered what it was.’
- ‘The sweet munchers and chatterers were out in force, loudly fissling their way through the evening.’
- ‘The banner fissled and slapped on the roof.’
- ‘I heard the almost inaudible fissling that told of visitors round the fire.’
- ‘The lady to my left is fissling her sandwiches open and munching away noisily.’
Origin
Early 18th century imitative of the sound (compare with fizzle).
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