shush

verbcommon in dialogue

//ʃʊʃ//
//ʃʌʃ//

To be quiet; to keep quiet.

verb

1
To be quiet; to keep quiet.
He wouldn't shush so I kicked him.
Shush, my parents are back!
2
To ask someone to be quiet, especially by saying shh.
The boy in front of us was making too much noise, so we shushed him.
The sequence where Sam carves off Jorah’s infected tissue in secret, stopping every few moments to shush his patient, is presented as comic relief why? Jorah reels back into a diagonal close-up whimpering like a dog. Yellow pus oozes to get those good gross-out laughs. Is the substance of this operation funny to anyone on its face?
To this day, many in the spelling world rebuff supernatural claims: On the podcast, parents say that they’ve been “shushed” in online forums, or “shut down” from sharing their experiences at conferences.

Etymology

Imitative. Compare shh and hush.

Forms

past tense: shushed
past participle: shushed
present participle: shushing
third person singular: shushes

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shush · To be quiet; to keep quiet.

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