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| buffoon | clown, imitative origin, may stem from allusion to puffing out cheeks as a comic gesture | |
| fizz | to make a hissing sound as of effervescence. also a carbonated beverage, champagne | |
| fizzle | to make a hissing or sputtering sound | |
| hiss | to make a sharp sibilant sound, produced by geese and snakes, or a cat (when angry/scared) | |
| huff | sound of exhaling, blowing, puffing | |
| shush | command to be quiet | |
| siss | to make a hissing sound | |
| sizzle | to burn with a hissing sound, buzz | |
| sniff | to draw air audibly up the nose especially for smelling | |
| whish | to make a sibilant sound | |
| whizz | a humming, hissing sound | |
| whiff | a quick puff or slight gust especially of air, odor, gas, smoke, or spray | |
| yoooo | the sound of wind (in the poem "the night wind", by Eugene Field: "... Have you ever heard the wind go "Yooooo"? 'T is a pitiful sound to hear! ...") | |
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