Why, Mrs. Orville was blubbering like a baby when I entered, but she tried to hush up after a while.
Do you think that fear of your disclosures will make me hush up twenty thefts?
hush up yourself, and bring to me the box of chocolates of my table.
Mrs. Loraine had taken pains to "hush up" the facts in regard to Kate.
He then said aloud: "Come, monsieur, let us hush up this affair."
The only way out of the affair was to borrow from Julie to hush up the matter.
But are you sure it's so easy, Theign, to hush up a real noise?
Yet, nevertheless, he would do his best to hush up the scandal.
“Do hush up, cousin Tom,” said Helen, pursing her lips at the major.
"Now hush up, you fellows," said Noah, turning round upon them.
1540s, variant of Middle English huisht (late 14c.), probably of imitative origin, with terminal -t lost probably by being mistaken for a past tense suffix. Hush-hush (adj.) is 1916 reduplication. Related: Hushed; hushing. The noun is attested from 1680s. As an interjection meaning "be quiet," attested by c.1600. To hush (one's) mouth "be quiet" is attested from 1878. Hush up "suppress talk for secrecy's sake" is from 1630s. Hush-money is attested from 1709. Hush-puppy "deep-fried ball of cornmeal batter" first attested 1899; as a type of lightweight soft shoe, it is a proprietary name, registered 1961.
