different between diss vs fiss

English

Alternative forms

• dis

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?s/
• Rhymes: -?s

Etymology 1

Originated in Jamaican English or African American Vernacular English, probably originally a clipping of disrespect or disparage.

Verb

diss (third-person singular simple present disses, present participle dissing, simple past and past participle dissed)

1. (Canada, US, Britain, slang) To put (someone) down, or show disrespect by the use of insulting language or dismissive behaviour.
   • 1905, 10 December, The Sunday Times (Perth), "A New Word", page 4:

     When a journalistic rival tries to "dis" you
     And to prejudice you in the public's eyes.
     Don't stigmatise his charges as a "tissue
     Of palpable, unmitigated lies."

Translations

Noun

diss (plural disses)

1. (slang) An insult or put-down; an expression of disrespect.

Synonyms

• (Britain, slang) send

Translations

Related terms

• diss song, diss track

Etymology 2

Clipping of dissertation

Noun

diss (plural disses)

1. (slang) Dissertation.

Etymology 3

From Arabic ????? (d?s).

Noun

diss (uncountable)

1. Ampelodesmos mauritanicus syn. Ampelodesmos tenax, a reedy grass used for cordage.

Anagrams

• ISDs, SDIs, SIDS, SIDs, SISD, SSID

Chinese

Etymology

Borrowed from English diss.

Verb

diss

1. (slang) to diss (to put (someone) down, or show disrespect by the use of insulting language or dismissive behaviour)

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English diss.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?s/
• Hyphenation: dis
• Rhymes: -?s
• Homophone: dis

Noun

diss m (plural disses or dissen)

1. (slang, hiphop) A diss.

Related terms

• dissen

Swedish

Noun

diss c

1. (slang) diss, rejection

Declension

Westrobothnian

Etymology 1

From Old Norse þess, gen. of þat n, from Proto-Germanic *þat (neuter of *sa (“that”)), from Proto-Indo-European *tód (neuter of *só (“that”)). Compare di.

Adverb

diss

1. The...the (when comparing)

Etymology 2

Verb

diss

1. singular imperative of diis

English

Etymology

From fission by back-formation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?s/
• Rhymes: -?s

Verb

fiss (third-person singular simple present fisses, present participle fissing, simple past and past participle fissed)

1. (transitive, nonstandard) To split apart into multiple entities.
   • 1998, Richard Hanley, Is Data Human?

     Perhaps every five minutes each person ceases to exist and is fissed, with one descendant instantly replacing the original and the other materializing on a twin Earth somewhere […]

Cimbrian

Etymology

From Venetian fiso, from Latin fixus (“fixed, constant”).

Adjective

fiss (comparative fissor, superlative dar fissorste) (Sette Comuni)

1. stable, steady
2. hard, firm

3. dense, thick

Declension

References

• “fiss” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

Old Irish

Noun

fiss ?

1. Alternative spelling of fis

Mutation