/ʃɪʃ/
OriginPhonetic alteration of shush.
- onomatopoeicUsed to request quiet; similar to shh.
- intransitive, onomatopoeicTo be quiet; to keep quiet.
“He wouldn’t shish, so I kicked him.”
“Shish, my parents are back!”
“Shish it!”
- not-comparableOn a skewer.
“Ketty wanted one of those healthy kebabs, so we walked down to the kebab shop on Hanmore Park High Street. She ordered shish chicken and salad in a pitta.”
- The spine of a shish kebab structure.
Formsshishes(present, singular, third-person) · shishing(participle, present) · shished(participle, past) · shished(past) · shishes(plural)