shibilant
Definition of shibilant
: pronounced or containing the sound \sh\ or \zh\ \ch\ (=t+sh) and \j\ (=d+zh) are shibilant affricates
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Origin and Etymology of shibilant
alteration (influenced by the digraph sh, representing the sound \sh\) of sibilant
shibilant
Definition of shibilant
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: a shibilant sound
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