sibilant
Speech parts
1. sibilant - Noun
2. sibilant - Adjective
3. sibilant - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Making a hissing sound; uttered with a hissing sound; hissing; as, s, z, sh, and zh, are sibilant elementary sounds.
A sibiliant letter.
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The sibilant s is the most difficult sound to correct.
This face is a dog's snout sniffing for garbage, snakes nest in that mouth, I hear the sibilant threat.
Although less common, some contemporary writers still follow the older practice of omitting the extra s in all cases ending with a sibilant, but usually not when written -x or -xe.
Extending this approach to cover the Samoyedic languages suggests affinity with Ugric, resulting in the aforementioned East Uralic grouping, as it also shares the same sibilant developments.
Despite this variation, there are some common characteristics to nearly all of the dialects of New Latin, for instance: * The use of a sibilant fricative or affricate in place of a stop for the letters c and sometimes g, when preceding a front vowel.
“Char,” says the man, but he chomps down on the sibilant, turning it into a short, gruff rush of air pushed through closed teeth: Char, charred, the dragon that doesn’t breathe fire but leaves things blackened and burnt anyway.