fissle

English

Verb

fissle (third-person singular simple present fissles, present participle fissling, simple past and past participle fissled)

1. Alternative form of fistle
   • 1917, Seumas MacManus, Lo, and Behold Ye!, page 101:

     ... by reason of its handsome hangings fixed on the ten foot high bed-posts that ran up almost to the roof on its front side. The beggar man fissled for a few minutes with the bedtick, and to all intents slipped something inside it.

   • 2010, Steph Swainston, Above the Snowline, Gollancz, →ISBN:

     Above us my flag, the Waterwheel emblem black on white, fissled and rustled. This tower was my haunt, my eyrie, my silent kingdom, and the serrated peaks of Darkling lurked out of sight below the horizon.

Scots

Verb

fissle

1. to fistle, to make a slight and continued noise; to rustle

References

• Jamieson's Dictionary of the Scottish Language.