Transcription
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- [shuhsh]
- /ʃʌʃ/
- /ʃʊʃ/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [shuhsh]
- /ʃʌʃ/
Definitions of shush word
- verb with object shush to order (someone or something) to be silent; hush. 1
- interjection shush be quiet, stop talking 1
- transitive verb shush cause sb to be quiet 1
- intransitive verb shush stop making noise 1
- convention shush You say shush when you are telling someone to be quiet. 0
- verb shush If you shush someone, you tell them to be quiet by saying 'shush' or 'sh', or by indicating in some other way that you want them to be quiet. 0
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Origin of shush
First appearance:
before 1920 One of the 12% newest English words
First recorded in 1920-25; imitative
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Parts of speech for Shush
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
shush popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 77% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
This word is included in each student's vocabulary. Most likely there is at least one movie with this word in the title.
shush usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for shush
verb shush
- balmed — simple past tense and past participle of balm.
- beat down — When the sun beats down, it is very hot and bright.
- blue pencil — deletion, alteration, or censorship of the contents of a book or other work
- blue-pencil — to alter, abridge, or cancel with or as with a pencil that has blue lead, as in editing a manuscript.
- burke — Edmund. 1729–97, British Whig statesman, conservative political theorist, and orator, born in Ireland: defended parliamentary government and campaigned for a more liberal treatment of the American colonies; denounced the French Revolution
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