shush

[ shuhsh ]

/ ʃʌʃ /

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interjection

hush (used as a command to be quiet or silent).

verb (used with object)

to order (someone or something) to be silent; hush.

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Origin of shush

First recorded in 1920–25; imitative

OTHER WORDS FROM shush

shusher, noun

Words nearby shush

shunter, shunting engine, shunto, shunt-wound, shura, shush, Shushan, Shuswap, shut, shutdown, Shute

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How to use shush in a sentence

Eric noticed that people in the audience were shushing each other so as to avoid having the meeting shut down.
A 13-Year-Old Put This Homophobic Ex-Virginia Lawmaker to Shame|Michael Daly|June 25, 2021|The Daily Beast
Danson playfully shushes her—he’s meant to have only told one or two people but everyone seems to know.
Larry David and the Game Theory of Anonymous Donations - Facts So Romantic|Brian Gallagher|December 16, 2020|Nautilus
Naomi gripped the bar, glancing back and forth between her hands and making “shush” noises to focus.
Sandy Koufax 2.0|Zachary Fenster|July 11, 2012|DAILY BEAST
When Barack Obama tried to shush "loose talk of war," he got as much traction as a vicar giving a sermon during a soccer riot.
Please Shut Up|Gershom Gorenberg|March 12, 2012|DAILY BEAST

I listened, and sure enough I heard the shush, shush of something moving in the dead leaves and dry grass a little distance away.
The Witch Doctor and other Rhodesian Studies|Frank Worthington
For once, Pelton didn't shush him; that was too close to his own attitude, at least in family-breakfast-table terminology.
Null-ABC|Henry Beam Piper and John Joseph McGuire
I was just about to say he could when again that shush, shush!
The Witch Doctor and other Rhodesian Studies|Frank Worthington
The orderly stopped pushing his chair and the nurse rushed forward to shush them sternly, but it barely dampened the calls.
Makers|Cory Doctorow
Den he would pull me away—dis great, dark devil, mit his enormous paws shush as if I was a child.
The Works of Rudyard Kipling: One Volume Edition|Rudyard Kipling

British Dictionary definitions for shush

shush

/ (ʃʊʃ) /

interjection

be quiet! hush!

verb

to silence or calm (someone) by or as if by saying "shush"

Word Origin for shush

C20: reduplication of sh, influenced by hush 1

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