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shooshed

shooshed is the simple past and past participle of shoosh.

Meaning of shoosh

Verb

shoosh (third-person singular simple present shooshes, present participle shooshing, simple past and past participle shooshed)

  1. To make or cause to make a shoosh; to move with a shoosh.
    • The makings were neatly laid out on a side-table, and to pour into a glass an inch or so of the raw spirit and shoosh some soda-water on top of it was with me the work of a moment.1934, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 11, in Right Ho, Jeeves
  2. To shush, to hush, to be quiet; to tell someone to be quiet.
    • "Sh!"
      "I won't shoosh!["]1916, George Barr McCutcheon, From the Housetops, Chicago; New York: M. A. Donohue, page 110
  3. To ski, especially in a gentle downhill curve.
    • The lift capacity, ever growing to meet demand, already enables 10,000 skiers to be whisked to the "top of the world " every hour, so enthusiasts spend a lot more time shooshing than standing around.1974 October, Skiing, volume 27, number 2, page 8

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Questions about shooshed

What is shooshed the simple past and past participle of?
Shooshed is the simple past and past participle of shoosh.

Words near shooshed in the dictionary

  1. shoors
  2. shoos
  3. shoos away
  4. shoosh
  5. Shooshap
  6. shooshed
  7. shooshes
  8. shooshing
  9. shooster
  10. shoosters
  11. shoot

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