/ʃʊʃ/, /ʃʌʃ/
OriginImitative. Compare shh and hush.
- intransitive, onomatopoeicTo be quiet; to keep quiet.
“He wouldn't shush so I kicked him.”
“Shush, my parents are back!”
- intransitive, onomatopoeic, transitiveTo 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 whimpe”
- A city in Khuzestan Province, Iran, site of ancient Susa.
Formsshushes(present, singular, third-person) · shushing(participle, present) · shushed(participle, past) · shushed(past)
Source: Wiktionary