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shush /ʃʊʃ / /ʃʌʃ /exclamationBe quiet: Shush! Do you want to wake everyone?...- She glared at the well-built wrestler and decided against hurting him, ‘Oh shush!’
- At one point, Harry giggles behind the camera and Diana says, ‘Harry shush!’
- Rolling her eyes impatiently, ‘Oh, shush, will you!;
noun1An utterance of ‘shush’: the thumps were followed by shushes from the aunts...- Ryan yelled, there were various shushes from the others.
- A simple hushed apology of ‘excuse me’ or ‘sorry’ when someone needed to pass by an audience member was met by shushes and evil stares.
- One of the students whispered to his friends, and a burst of laughter from them caused the teachers to glare at them, accompanied by a few shushes.
2A soft swishing or rustling sound: the ‘shush, shush, shush’ of a broom on the tent’s groundsheet...- There were a few shushes from the people around us and quickly shushed up, diverting out attention back to the movie.
- Yallac followed suit, lying on her back and gazing up at the endless expanse of stars, listening to the shushing of the water on the cliffs.
verb1 [with object] Tell or signal (someone) to be silent: she shushed him with a wave...- She shushed him and signalled for him to move back to the other side of the battlements.
- I'm quite bad at regulating my voice, as many people who've publicly shushed me can attest.
- A woman answered giggling and shushing someone to silence before speaking.
1.1 [no object] Become or remain silent: Beth told her to shush...- My generation didn't have to calm our babies after feeding; we nursed them to sleep, which takes less time than bouncing, wrapping, shushing, and pacifying.
- My inner voice, still remained a loud, enthusiastic, untrained child, frequently shushed and disciplined to sit still.
- The women are whispering and the men shushing and telling everyone to sit down - they've never seen a drama like this before.
2 [no object, usually with adverbial of direction] Move with or make a soft swishing or rustling sound: I stood to watch a big liner shushing slowly past (as noun shushing) she could hear the gentle shushing of the waves...- The wind in the trees, waves shushing on the shore, birdsong or the rustle of long grass.
- There's a field above my house where the only sounds are eagles above and wind shushing through grass and pine below.
- Dining on the beach, surf shushing over the nearby reef, my biggest dilemma is which of five lobster menu options to select.
Origin Rhymes ablush, blush, brush, crush, flush, gush, hush, hush-hush, lush, mush, plush, rush, slush, thrush, tush |