hushn.¹

Brit.

/hʌʃ/, U.S.

/həʃ/

A local Scottish name for the Lumpfish ( Cyclopterus lumpus).

ΚΠ

1808–18 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Hush, the Lump, a fish.

Derivatives

hush-bagaty n.

hush-padle (cf. cockpaddle n.).

a1605 Polwart Flyting with Montgomerie 746 Hush padle, lick ladle.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

hushn.²

Brit.

/hʌʃ/, U.S.

/həʃ/

Etymology: < hush v.¹ Rare before the 19th cent., but then (perhaps following Byron) in extensive use in prose and poetry.

a. Suppression of sound, imposed or enforced; silence (where noise has been or might be); stillness, quiet.

ΚΠ

1689 in J. R. Bloxham Magdalen Coll. & James II (1886) (modernized text) 274 At the very instant was a hush.

1724 A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. (1733) III. 285 Where the shrill trumpets never sound, But one eternal hush goes round.

1816 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto III lxxxvi. 48 It is the hush of night.

1835 E. Bulwer-Lytton Rienzi III. x. v. 295 A dead hush lay like a heavy air over the multitude.

1870 C. Dickens Edwin Drood xii. 91 A certain awful hush pervades the ancient pile, the cloisters, and the churchyard.

1877 W. Black Green Pastures xxvi The hush of evening had fallen over the birds.

1897 Westm. Gaz. 24 Dec. 3/1 There are moments of solemn hush between the verses of the hymn.

b. Suppression of discussion; the hushing-up of a scandal, etc. Also attributive and in other combinations.

ΚΠ

1898 Daily News 1 Feb. 3/5 The distinguishing feature of the Board was a policy of ‘Hush’.

1917 T. E. Lawrence Home Lett. (1954) 336 I wonder what the censor will make of this letter?.. There is a ‘Hush’ policy over the Red Sea and Arabia.

1917 H. G. Wells Let. Nov. in Exper. Autobiogr. (1934) II. ix. 711 In Britain and France ‘hush’ in the interests of diplomacy is being organized with increasing violence.

1919 H. F. B. Wheeler War in Underseas 317 Mighty ‘hush’ ships which lived and moved..on the surface of great waters.

1920 Argus (Melbourne) 29 May 6 Time seems to have left..no surviving link between the frigate of Trafalgar and the ‘hush-boat’ of to-day.

1930 Publishers' Weekly 31 May 2735/2 Youngsters that are reared on the ‘hush plan’.

1968 Guardian 31 July 6/6 It's still a source of Labour amazement that the Harry Nicholas scheme didn't leak in advance of the coup. Nicholas ringleaders maintained unique hush, and may do so again.

2. An utterance of ‘hush!’

ΚΠ

1871 L. Stephen Playground of Europe (1894) xii. 282 A scarce audible hush seems to be whispered throughout the region.

3. Phonetics. The sibilant /ʃ/ or /ʒ/. Also attributive and in other combinations.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > [noun] > qualities of speech sounds > sound of specific quality

dissonant1865

hush1933

1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. vi. 100 These hushes or abnormal sibilants are separate phonemes [š, ž], as in shin [šin], vision [ˈvižṇ].

1953 Archivum Linguisticum 5 ii. 68 The distinction between hiss- (French sifflantes) and hush-sibilants (French chuintantes) emerges..between the ‘complementary’ Indo-European types Latvian and Lithuanian.

1964 E. Palmer tr. A. Martinet Elements Gen. Linguistics iii. 64 We obtain the following classes:..‘apical’ t d n; ‘hiss’ s z; ‘hush’ š ž.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

hushn.³

Brit.

/hʌʃ/, U.S.

/həʃ/

Etymology: Echoic. Goes with hush v.³ Compare German husch sudden or swift motion, sudden shower of rain.

northern dialect.

1. The sound made by water flowing swiftly but smoothly.

ΚΠ

1868 G. MacDonald Robert Falconer I. 242 In his ears was the hush rather than rush of the water over the dam.

2. A gush or rush of water; spec. in Lead-mining, an artificial rush of water from a dam, to wash away the surface, etc.: see hush v.³ Hence hush-dam n., hush-gutter see quot. 1821.

ΚΠ

1821 W. Forster Section of Strata (ed. 2) 283 Where the sloping ground to be hushed, is of any considerable length, from the hush-dam down to the bottom of the slope, the reservoir must contain a considerable quantity of water..to carry down the great quantity of rubbish which the water will raise in a long hush-gutter.

1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Hush, a sudden bursting out of water, a gush.

1861 Durham Chron. 13 Sept. The ‘hushes’ from the lead mines, which had done so much harm to the fish.

1893 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Hush, a great rush of water. This is produced artificially..so as to bare the surface of the rock in order to discover indications of ore in the face of a hill side.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

hushadj.

Brit.

/hʌʃ/, U.S.

/həʃ/

Etymology: A later modification of husht adj., after the introduction of hush v.¹, hush int.

a. Silent, still, quiet, hushed. archaic.

ΚΠ

1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet ii. ii. 489 The bold winds speechlesse, and the orbe belowe As hush as death.

1607 S. Rowlands Diogines Lanthorne 22 At night when all was hush.

1666 S. Pepys Diary 22 July (1972) VII. 213 Walked through the house, where most people mighty hush, and methinks melancholy.

1702 J. Tutchin Mouse grown Rat 31 You..are hush in his Cause, that you may be able to speak in your own.

1813 W. Scott Rokeby vi. iii. 275 The owl has seen him and is hush.

1841 H. W. Longfellow Frithiof's Homestead 29 Hush sat the listening bench.

b. Secret. Cf. hush-hush adj.This use merges with hush n.² 1b attributive.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > [adjective] > as part of plan, process, etc.

hush-hush1916

pink1924

hush1944

shush-shush1963

1944 H. Croome You've gone Astray xxii. 218 A tremendous journalistic job..something important and hush.

1945 N. Streatfeild Saplings i. 10 ‘I've got some new gadgets to make...’ ‘What sort of things?’ ‘It's all a bit hush.’

1957 ‘J. Wyndham’ Midwich Cuckoos vi. 50 I don't know what goes on at The Grange, but I do know that it is very hush.

1966 Economist 9 July p. xxvi/1 Volkswagen..is keeping very hush about its solution to the pollution problem.

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hushv.¹

Brit.

/hʌʃ/, U.S.

/həʃ/

Forms: Also 1500s whush, 1600s whosh.

Etymology: Found first in 16th cent.; apparently in its origin a back-formation < husht adj., which was in much earlier use, and appears to have been, from its final t , at length treated as a past participle: see hushed adj. A verb husht v. of the same form as the adjective is recorded in 16th cent. dictionaries.

a. transitive. To make silent, still, or quiet; to impose silence upon; to silence, quiet.

1546 Supplic. Poor Commons sig. b.viii^v Yf they were of God they woulde..not be hushed wyth an acte in parlament.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) v. i. 104 My dutie hushes me.

1644 J. Milton Doctr. Divorce (ed. 2) 66 Which..like the word of a God, in one instant hushes outragious tempests into a sudden stilnesse and peacefull calm.

1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey III. xiii. 3 A pause of silence hush'd the shady rooms.

1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho II. ii. 50 To..hush the sailor's fearful groan.

1832 W. Irving Alhambra II. 152 The very birds..hushing their own strains, listened in charmed silence.

1853 C. Dickens Bleak House xxxi. 303 The little child awoke..Charley..began to walk about hushing it.

1883 R. L. Stevenson Silverado Squatters i. iii. 35 Hushing their talk.

b. with up, down, as intensive additions.

1682 J. Bunyan Holy War 24 Thus would Diabolus hush up, and quiet the Town of Mansoul.

1858 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (ed. 2) III. xii. 4 If he would hush down the waves of heresy as he had restored peace to the waters of the Mediterranean.

1870 D. G. Rossetti Dante at Verona in Poems xiv Pages hushed their laughter down.

c. to hush one's mouth: to be quiet, stop talking; so hush my mouth!, used as an exclamation of surprise. U.S. dialect.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > expectation > surprise, unexpectedness > expressing surprise [phrase]

it (or that) is (was, were, etc.) no wonder1362

it is (a) wondera1400

the wonder is‥1608

you could (or might) have knocked me (etc.) down with a feather1740

think1746

for a wonder1782

to hush one's mouth1903

you'd be surprised1926

1903 Dial. Notes 2 317 ‘Hesh your mouth,’ i.e. stop talking.

1931 Amer. Speech 7 29 Hush mah mouf.

1972 G. Baxt Burning Sappho ii. 42 Pat..glared at him. ‘You hush your mouth Malcolm.’

2. transferred and figurative. To reduce to tranquillity, to suppress (anything disturbing or disquieting); to allay, lull, pacify. Also with up.

ΘΠ

the world > action or operation > manner of action > lack of violence, severity, or intensity > make less violent or severe [verb (transitive)] > assuage or calm

laya1300

disarm?c1400

lithec1430

mitigatea1513

charmc1540

hush1632

assopiatea1649

1632 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Eromena 178 The matter was whosht up with the conclusion of the marriage.

1682 T. Otway Venice Preserv'd i. 11 Wilt thou then Hush my Cares thus?

1784 Mann in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Literary Men (1843) (Camden) 427 I do sincerely congratulate you, that the disturbance is hushed.

1819 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto I lviii. 32 There's a rumour which I fain would hush.

1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People v. §3. 233 The quarrel between the baronage and the Church..was hushed in the presence of a common danger.

3. Usually in to hush up. To suppress talk, mention, or discussion of; to procure silence concerning; to keep from getting known.

ΘΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > keep from knowledge [verb (transitive)] > cover up

smother1579

to shuffle up1588

smother1589

smooth1592

slobber1630

to hush up1632

slubber1646

smooth1684

sopite1746

shade1785

smug1857

hugger-mugger1862

to cover up1926

1632 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Eromena 125 Resolved to have all things husht up.

1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 59. ⁋5 It had indeed cost him a Hundred Pounds to hush the Affair.

1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. ii. v. 82 The Thing was hushed up, and never known at Court.

1798 T. Jefferson Writings (1859) IV. 207 Either the Envoys have not written..or their communications are hushed up.

1812 Sporting Mag. 40 165 What is vulgarly called hushing the transaction.

1893 Law Times 95 225/2 Opportunities for a suspicious matter being improperly hushed up.

4. intransitive. To become or be silent, quiet, or still. Also colloquial with up.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > taciturnity or reticence > be silent/refrain from speaking [verb (intransitive)]

to hold one's tonguec897

to keep one's tonguec897

to be (hold oneself) stilla1000

to say littleOE

to hold one's mouthc1175

to shut (also close) one's mouthc1175

to keep (one's) silence?c1225

to hold (also have, keep) one's peacea1275

stillc1330

peacec1395

mum1440

to say neither buff nor baff1481

to keep (also play) mum1532

to charm the tonguec1540

to have (also set, keep) a hatch before the door1546

hush1548

to play (at) mumbudgeta1564

not to say buff to a wolf's shadow1590

to keep a still tongue in one's head1729

to sing small1738

to sew up1785

let that fly stick in (or to) the wall1814

to say (also know) neither buff nor stye1824

to choke back1844

mumchance1854

to keep one's trap shut1899

to choke up1907

to belt up1949

to keep (or stay) shtum1958

shtum1958

the mind > language > speech > taciturnity or reticence > be silent/refrain from speaking [verb (intransitive)] > stop speaking

to make up one's mouthc1175

to shut (also close) one's mouthc1175

blina1300

dumba1300

leavea1375

to put a sock in ita1529

hush1548

silence1551

stay1551

stow1567

stop1579

to save one's breath (also wind)1605

tace1697

stubble it!1699

shut your trap!1796

to keep a calm (or quiet) sough1808

stubble your whids!1830

to shut up1840

to dry up1853

pawl1867

subside1872

to pipe down1876

to shut (one's) head, face1876

shurrup1893

to shut off1896

clam1916

dry1934

shtum1958

to oyster up1973

1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. John xxi. 12–15 The disciples sate downe, but all whusht and spake no wordes.

1561 [implied in: T. Hoby tr. B. Castiglione Courtyer iv. sig. Yy.i^v The tunable notes of the prety birdes, emong the hushing woodes of the hilles. (at hushing adj.)].

1580 Sir P. Sidney tr. Psalmes David xxxix. v But I doe hush, why do I say thus much?

a1635 T. Randolph Amyntas iii. ii. 54 in Poems (1638) All hush to bed.

18.. J. R. Lowell Sonn. xx Let praise hush.

1855 T. T. Lynch Rivulet xvii. 23 O, let us hush and hear His holy word.

1860 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 3) To hush up, to cease speaking, to be silent, to hush.

1895 Westm. Gaz. 17 Feb. 3/3 Mr. Gladstone rose as Leader of the House, and everyone hushed to hear his decision.

Derivatives

husher n. (in whoosher) one who hushes or quiets.

1659 G. Torriano Florio's Vocabolario Italiano & Inglese Ninnatrice, a rocker, a stiller, a luller, a whoosher or a dandler of children asleep.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

hushv.²

Etymology: A modification of the natural utterance sh! : compare shoo v. Compare German huschen in same sense.

Now dialect.

transitive. To scare or drive off (birds, etc.) with cries of ‘hush!’ or ‘sh!’.

ΚΠ

1616 W. Browne Britannia's Pastorals II. iii. 53 She husht him thence, he sung no more, But..flew tow'rds the shore.

1675 T. Brooks Paradice Opened 186 Whilst David was hunted up and down like a Partridge, and hushed out of every bush.

1880 W. H. Patterson Gloss. Words Antrim & Down Hush, to drive a flock of fowl, saying at the same time, ‘Hush, hush’. Sometimes Whush, or Wheeshoo.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online September 2018).

hushv.³

Etymology: Echoic. Compare hush n.³

northern dialect.

transitive. To send or let forth (water) with a rush; spec. in Lead mining, to send a rush of water over a sloping surface, in order to uncover ore, and separate it from the earth and stones in which it is embedded, or for similar purposes.

ΚΠ

1752 Philos. Trans. 1749–50 (Royal Soc.) 46 364 Which gives it [the River] the Colour of Water hushed from Lead-mines.

1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Hush, to detach, by force of a running stream, earthy particles from minerals.

1878 W. Dickinson Gloss. Words & Phrases Cumberland (ed. 2) Hush,..to wash away soil from mines or quarries by a rush of water.

1886 W. M. Egglestone Weardale Names 73 The earliest method of searching for lead ore was by collecting the water in dams and hushing the surface of the ground where metalliferous veins existed.

Derivatives

hushing n. (also attributive)

ΚΠ

1799 Mining lease in R. V. Barnewall & C. Cresswell Rep. Cases King's Bench IX. 507 With full power..to do all other things (hushing only excepted) as might be necessary.

1821 W. Forster Section of Strata (ed. 2) 282 (note) Considerable quantities of float ore have been procured at Greengill mine, in Alston-moor by Hushing.

1887 North Star 28 Oct. [He] had promised..that he would have a stop put to the hushing process.

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hushint.

Brit.

/hʌʃ/, U.S.

/həʃ/

Etymology: apparently a later form of husht int.¹: compare sh int. It might also be taken as imperative of hush v.¹

A command to be silent or quiet; silence! = Scottish whisht!

ΚΠ

1604 R. Cawdrey Table Alphabet. Hush, Husht, peace, or be still.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) v. v. 188 No more you petty Spirits of Region low Offend our hearing: hush .

1700 T. Brown Amusem. Serious & Comical x. 125 They employ'd themselves while the Bills were reading, about—Hush, hush.

1797 A. Radcliffe Italian II. i. 51 ‘Hush! they are pilgrims’, whispered Vivaldi.

1873 J. A. Symonds Stud. Greek Poets vii. 225 Silence! Hush! what noise was this?

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

n.¹a1605

n.²1689

n.³1821

adj.1604

v.¹1546

v.²1616

v.³1752

int.1604

单词	hush
释义	hushn.¹ Brit. /hʌʃ/, U.S. /həʃ/ A local Scottish name for the Lumpfish ( Cyclopterus lumpus). ΚΠ 1808–18 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Hush, the Lump, a fish. Derivatives hush-bagaty n. hush-padle (cf. cockpaddle n.). Π a1605 Polwart Flyting with Montgomerie 746 Hush padle, lick ladle. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022). hushn.² Brit. /hʌʃ/, U.S. /həʃ/ Etymology: < hush v.¹ Rare before the 19th cent., but then (perhaps following Byron) in extensive use in prose and poetry. 1. a. Suppression of sound, imposed or enforced; silence (where noise has been or might be); stillness, quiet. ΚΠ 1689 in J. R. Bloxham Magdalen Coll. & James II (1886) (modernized text) 274 At the very instant was a hush. 1724 A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. (1733) III. 285 Where the shrill trumpets never sound, But one eternal hush goes round. 1816 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto III lxxxvi. 48 It is the hush of night. 1835 E. Bulwer-Lytton Rienzi III. x. v. 295 A dead hush lay like a heavy air over the multitude. 1870 C. Dickens Edwin Drood xii. 91 A certain awful hush pervades the ancient pile, the cloisters, and the churchyard. 1877 W. Black Green Pastures xxvi The hush of evening had fallen over the birds. 1897 Westm. Gaz. 24 Dec. 3/1 There are moments of solemn hush between the verses of the hymn. b. Suppression of discussion; the hushing-up of a scandal, etc. Also attributive and in other combinations. ΚΠ 1898 Daily News 1 Feb. 3/5 The distinguishing feature of the Board was a policy of ‘Hush’. 1917 T. E. Lawrence Home Lett. (1954) 336 I wonder what the censor will make of this letter?.. There is a ‘Hush’ policy over the Red Sea and Arabia. 1917 H. G. Wells Let. Nov. in Exper. Autobiogr. (1934) II. ix. 711 In Britain and France ‘hush’ in the interests of diplomacy is being organized with increasing violence. 1919 H. F. B. Wheeler War in Underseas 317 Mighty ‘hush’ ships which lived and moved..on the surface of great waters. 1920 Argus (Melbourne) 29 May 6 Time seems to have left..no surviving link between the frigate of Trafalgar and the ‘hush-boat’ of to-day. 1930 Publishers' Weekly 31 May 2735/2 Youngsters that are reared on the ‘hush plan’. 1968 Guardian 31 July 6/6 It's still a source of Labour amazement that the Harry Nicholas scheme didn't leak in advance of the coup. Nicholas ringleaders maintained unique hush, and may do so again. 2. An utterance of ‘hush!’ ΚΠ 1871 L. Stephen Playground of Europe (1894) xii. 282 A scarce audible hush seems to be whispered throughout the region. 3. Phonetics. The sibilant /ʃ/ or /ʒ/. Also attributive and in other combinations. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > [noun] > qualities of speech sounds > sound of specific quality dissonant1865 hush1933 1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. vi. 100 These hushes or abnormal sibilants are separate phonemes [š, ž], as in shin [šin], vision [ˈvižṇ]. 1953 Archivum Linguisticum 5 ii. 68 The distinction between hiss- (French sifflantes) and hush-sibilants (French chuintantes) emerges..between the ‘complementary’ Indo-European types Latvian and Lithuanian. 1964 E. Palmer tr. A. Martinet Elements Gen. Linguistics iii. 64 We obtain the following classes:..‘apical’ t d n; ‘hiss’ s z; ‘hush’ š ž. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022). hushn.³ Brit. /hʌʃ/, U.S. /həʃ/ Etymology: Echoic. Goes with hush v.³ Compare German husch sudden or swift motion, sudden shower of rain. northern dialect. 1. The sound made by water flowing swiftly but smoothly. ΚΠ 1868 G. MacDonald Robert Falconer I. 242 In his ears was the hush rather than rush of the water over the dam. 2. A gush or rush of water; spec. in Lead-mining, an artificial rush of water from a dam, to wash away the surface, etc.: see hush v.³ Hence hush-dam n., hush-gutter see quot. 1821. ΚΠ 1821 W. Forster Section of Strata (ed. 2) 283 Where the sloping ground to be hushed, is of any considerable length, from the hush-dam down to the bottom of the slope, the reservoir must contain a considerable quantity of water..to carry down the great quantity of rubbish which the water will raise in a long hush-gutter. 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Hush, a sudden bursting out of water, a gush. 1861 Durham Chron. 13 Sept. The ‘hushes’ from the lead mines, which had done so much harm to the fish. 1893 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Hush, a great rush of water. This is produced artificially..so as to bare the surface of the rock in order to discover indications of ore in the face of a hill side. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022). hushadj. Brit. /hʌʃ/, U.S. /həʃ/ Etymology: A later modification of husht adj., after the introduction of hush v.¹, hush int. a. Silent, still, quiet, hushed. archaic. ΚΠ 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet ii. ii. 489 The bold winds speechlesse, and the orbe belowe As hush as death. View more context for this quotation 1607 S. Rowlands Diogines Lanthorne 22 At night when all was hush. 1666 S. Pepys Diary 22 July (1972) VII. 213 Walked through the house, where most people mighty hush, and methinks melancholy. 1702 J. Tutchin Mouse grown Rat 31 You..are hush in his Cause, that you may be able to speak in your own. 1813 W. Scott Rokeby vi. iii. 275 The owl has seen him and is hush. 1841 H. W. Longfellow Frithiof's Homestead 29 Hush sat the listening bench. b. Secret. Cf. hush-hush adj.This use merges with hush n.² 1b attributive. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > [adjective] > as part of plan, process, etc. hush-hush1916 pink1924 hush1944 shush-shush1963 1944 H. Croome You've gone Astray xxii. 218 A tremendous journalistic job..something important and hush. 1945 N. Streatfeild Saplings i. 10 ‘I've got some new gadgets to make...’ ‘What sort of things?’ ‘It's all a bit hush.’ 1957 ‘J. Wyndham’ Midwich Cuckoos vi. 50 I don't know what goes on at The Grange, but I do know that it is very hush. 1966 Economist 9 July p. xxvi/1 Volkswagen..is keeping very hush about its solution to the pollution problem. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022). hushv.¹ Brit. /hʌʃ/, U.S. /həʃ/ Forms: Also 1500s whush, 1600s whosh. Etymology: Found first in 16th cent.; apparently in its origin a back-formation < husht adj., which was in much earlier use, and appears to have been, from its final t , at length treated as a past participle: see hushed adj. A verb husht v. of the same form as the adjective is recorded in 16th cent. dictionaries. 1. a. transitive. To make silent, still, or quiet; to impose silence upon; to silence, quiet. Π 1546 Supplic. Poor Commons sig. b.viii^v Yf they were of God they woulde..not be hushed wyth an acte in parlament. a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) v. i. 104 My dutie hushes me. View more context for this quotation 1644 J. Milton Doctr. Divorce (ed. 2) 66 Which..like the word of a God, in one instant hushes outragious tempests into a sudden stilnesse and peacefull calm. 1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey III. xiii. 3 A pause of silence hush'd the shady rooms. 1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho II. ii. 50 To..hush the sailor's fearful groan. 1832 W. Irving Alhambra II. 152 The very birds..hushing their own strains, listened in charmed silence. 1853 C. Dickens Bleak House xxxi. 303 The little child awoke..Charley..began to walk about hushing it. 1883 R. L. Stevenson Silverado Squatters i. iii. 35 Hushing their talk. b. with up, down, as intensive additions. Π 1682 J. Bunyan Holy War 24 Thus would Diabolus hush up, and quiet the Town of Mansoul. 1858 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (ed. 2) III. xii. 4 If he would hush down the waves of heresy as he had restored peace to the waters of the Mediterranean. 1870 D. G. Rossetti Dante at Verona in Poems xiv Pages hushed their laughter down. c. to hush one's mouth: to be quiet, stop talking; so hush my mouth!, used as an exclamation of surprise. U.S. dialect. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > surprise, unexpectedness > expressing surprise [phrase] it (or that) is (was, were, etc.) no wonder1362 it is (a) wondera1400 the wonder is‥1608 you could (or might) have knocked me (etc.) down with a feather1740 think1746 for a wonder1782 to hush one's mouth1903 you'd be surprised1926 1903 Dial. Notes 2 317 ‘Hesh your mouth,’ i.e. stop talking. 1931 Amer. Speech 7 29 Hush mah mouf. 1972 G. Baxt Burning Sappho ii. 42 Pat..glared at him. ‘You hush your mouth Malcolm.’ 2. transferred and figurative. To reduce to tranquillity, to suppress (anything disturbing or disquieting); to allay, lull, pacify. Also with up. ΘΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > lack of violence, severity, or intensity > make less violent or severe [verb (transitive)] > assuage or calm laya1300 disarm?c1400 lithec1430 mitigatea1513 charmc1540 hush1632 assopiatea1649 1632 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Eromena 178 The matter was whosht up with the conclusion of the marriage. 1682 T. Otway Venice Preserv'd i. 11 Wilt thou then Hush my Cares thus? 1784 Mann in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Literary Men (1843) (Camden) 427 I do sincerely congratulate you, that the disturbance is hushed. 1819 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto I lviii. 32 There's a rumour which I fain would hush. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People v. §3. 233 The quarrel between the baronage and the Church..was hushed in the presence of a common danger. 3. Usually in to hush up. To suppress talk, mention, or discussion of; to procure silence concerning; to keep from getting known. ΘΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > keep from knowledge [verb (transitive)] > cover up smother1579 to shuffle up1588 smother1589 smooth1592 smooth1592 slobber1630 to hush up1632 slubber1646 smooth1684 sopite1746 shade1785 smug1857 hugger-mugger1862 to cover up1926 1632 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Eromena 125 Resolved to have all things husht up. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 59. ⁋5 It had indeed cost him a Hundred Pounds to hush the Affair. 1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. ii. v. 82 The Thing was hushed up, and never known at Court. 1798 T. Jefferson Writings (1859) IV. 207 Either the Envoys have not written..or their communications are hushed up. 1812 Sporting Mag. 40 165 What is vulgarly called hushing the transaction. 1893 Law Times 95 225/2 Opportunities for a suspicious matter being improperly hushed up. 4. intransitive. To become or be silent, quiet, or still. Also colloquial with up. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > taciturnity or reticence > be silent/refrain from speaking [verb (intransitive)] to hold one's tonguec897 to keep one's tonguec897 to be (hold oneself) stilla1000 to say littleOE to hold one's mouthc1175 to shut (also close) one's mouthc1175 to keep (one's) silence?c1225 to hold (also have, keep) one's peacea1275 stillc1330 peacec1395 mum1440 to say neither buff nor baff1481 to keep (also play) mum1532 to charm the tonguec1540 to have (also set, keep) a hatch before the door1546 hush1548 to play (at) mumbudgeta1564 not to say buff to a wolf's shadow1590 to keep a still tongue in one's head1729 to sing small1738 to sew up1785 let that fly stick in (or to) the wall1814 to say (also know) neither buff nor stye1824 to choke back1844 mumchance1854 to keep one's trap shut1899 to choke up1907 to belt up1949 to keep (or stay) shtum1958 shtum1958 the mind > language > speech > taciturnity or reticence > be silent/refrain from speaking [verb (intransitive)] > stop speaking to make up one's mouthc1175 to shut (also close) one's mouthc1175 blina1300 dumba1300 leavea1375 to put a sock in ita1529 hush1548 silence1551 stay1551 stow1567 stop1579 to save one's breath (also wind)1605 tace1697 stubble it!1699 shut your trap!1796 to keep a calm (or quiet) sough1808 stubble your whids!1830 to shut up1840 to dry up1853 pawl1867 subside1872 to pipe down1876 to shut (one's) head, face1876 shurrup1893 to shut off1896 clam1916 dry1934 shtum1958 to oyster up1973 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. John xxi. 12–15 The disciples sate downe, but all whusht and spake no wordes. 1561 [implied in: T. Hoby tr. B. Castiglione Courtyer iv. sig. Yy.i^v The tunable notes of the prety birdes, emong the hushing woodes of the hilles. (at hushing adj.)]. 1580 Sir P. Sidney tr. Psalmes David xxxix. v But I doe hush, why do I say thus much? a1635 T. Randolph Amyntas iii. ii. 54 in Poems (1638) All hush to bed. 18.. J. R. Lowell Sonn. xx Let praise hush. 1855 T. T. Lynch Rivulet xvii. 23 O, let us hush and hear His holy word. 1860 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 3) To hush up, to cease speaking, to be silent, to hush. 1895 Westm. Gaz. 17 Feb. 3/3 Mr. Gladstone rose as Leader of the House, and everyone hushed to hear his decision. Derivatives husher n. (in whoosher) one who hushes or quiets. Π 1659 G. Torriano Florio's Vocabolario Italiano & Inglese Ninnatrice, a rocker, a stiller, a luller, a whoosher or a dandler of children asleep. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2022). hushv.² Etymology: A modification of the natural utterance sh! : compare shoo v. Compare German huschen in same sense. Now dialect. transitive. To scare or drive off (birds, etc.) with cries of ‘hush!’ or ‘sh!’. ΚΠ 1616 W. Browne Britannia's Pastorals II. iii. 53 She husht him thence, he sung no more, But..flew tow'rds the shore. 1675 T. Brooks Paradice Opened 186 Whilst David was hunted up and down like a Partridge, and hushed out of every bush. 1880 W. H. Patterson Gloss. Words Antrim & Down Hush, to drive a flock of fowl, saying at the same time, ‘Hush, hush’. Sometimes Whush, or Wheeshoo. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online September 2018). hushv.³ Etymology: Echoic. Compare hush n.³ northern dialect. transitive. To send or let forth (water) with a rush; spec. in Lead mining, to send a rush of water over a sloping surface, in order to uncover ore, and separate it from the earth and stones in which it is embedded, or for similar purposes. ΚΠ 1752 Philos. Trans. 1749–50 (Royal Soc.) 46 364 Which gives it [the River] the Colour of Water hushed from Lead-mines. 1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Hush, to detach, by force of a running stream, earthy particles from minerals. 1878 W. Dickinson Gloss. Words & Phrases Cumberland (ed. 2) Hush,..to wash away soil from mines or quarries by a rush of water. 1886 W. M. Egglestone Weardale Names 73 The earliest method of searching for lead ore was by collecting the water in dams and hushing the surface of the ground where metalliferous veins existed. Derivatives hushing n. (also attributive) ΚΠ 1799 Mining lease in R. V. Barnewall & C. Cresswell Rep. Cases King's Bench IX. 507 With full power..to do all other things (hushing only excepted) as might be necessary. 1821 W. Forster Section of Strata (ed. 2) 282 (note) Considerable quantities of float ore have been procured at Greengill mine, in Alston-moor by Hushing. 1887 North Star 28 Oct. [He] had promised..that he would have a stop put to the hushing process. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online September 2021). hushint. Brit. /hʌʃ/, U.S. /həʃ/ Etymology: apparently a later form of husht int.¹: compare sh int. It might also be taken as imperative of hush v.¹ A command to be silent or quiet; silence! = Scottish whisht! ΚΠ 1604 R. Cawdrey Table Alphabet. Hush, Husht, peace, or be still. a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) v. v. 188 No more you petty Spirits of Region low Offend our hearing: hush . View more context for this quotation 1700 T. Brown Amusem. Serious & Comical x. 125 They employ'd themselves while the Bills were reading, about—Hush, hush. 1797 A. Radcliffe Italian II. i. 51 ‘Hush! they are pilgrims’, whispered Vivaldi. 1873 J. A. Symonds Stud. Greek Poets vii. 225 Silence! Hush! what noise was this? This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹a1605n.²1689n.³1821adj.1604v.¹1546v.²1616v.³1752int.1604
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