shush
verb/ʃʊʃ/ · /ʃʌʃ/
Etymology Imitative. Compare shh and hush.
1
Onomatopoeic To be quiet; to keep quiet.
- He wouldn't shush so I kicked him.
- Shush, my parents are back!
2
Onomatopoeic 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?2017 July 23, Brandon Nowalk, “The great game begins with a bang on Game Of Thrones (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club:
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- 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.2025 March 3, Daniel Engber, “The Telepathy Trap”, in The Atlantic, retrieved 15 Apr 2026: