shusher

noun

shusher

noun

Etymology From shush + -er.

1

Someone who shushes, insisting on silence

  • Aren’t they supposed to be bespectacled women with a love of classic books and a perpetual annoyance with talkative patrons — the ultimate humorless shushers?2007 July 8, Kara Jesella, “A Hipper Crowd of Shushers”, in New York Times:

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