shush

Meaning of shush

exclamation
  1. be quiet.
    Shush! Do you want to wake everyone?
noun
  1. an utterance of ‘shush’.
    the thumps were followed by shushes from the aunts
  2. a soft swishing or rustling sound.
    the ‘shush, shush, shush’ of a broom on the tent's groundsheet
verb
  1. tell or signal (someone) to be silent.
    she shushed him with a wave
  2. move with or make a soft swishing or rustling sound.
    I stood to watch a big liner shushing slowly past

1920s: imitative.

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Hyphenation of shush

shush

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
  • shush is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

Words that rhyme with shush

hush, ahush, whush

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