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shush

/ʃʊʃ/

shush verb: to be quiet; to keep quiet.

Verb

shush (third-person singular simple present shushes, present participle shushing, simple past and past participle shushed)

  1. (intransitive, onomatopoeic) To be quiet; to keep quiet.
    • He wouldn't shush so I kicked him.
    • Shush, my parents are back!
  2. (intransitive, onomatopoeic, transitive) To 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 whimpering like a dog. Yellow pus oozes to get those good gross-out laughs. Is the substance of this...2017 July 23, Brandon Nowalk, “The great game begins with a bang on Game Of Thrones (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club

Proper noun capitalized: Shush

Shush

  1. A city in Khuzestan Province, Iran, site of ancient Susa.

shush meaning in Malayalam and Arabic

shush in Malayalam

shush, shut up
പ്ഫ ppha

shush in Arabic

To be quiet
صَمَت ṣamat

Examples of shush in a sentence

  • When he responds with ever-increasing insults and shushing, tell him to go get his shinebox.
  • She thanked him again – she really was a stuck record – and he shushed her again.
  • It was a shushing sound, and he finally realized it was the river itself.

All 10 example sentences with shush

Forms of shush

third-person singular presentshushes
present participleshushing
past participleshushed
pastshushed

Past tense of shush: shushed

Origin of shush

Imitative. Compare shh and hush.

Borrowed from Persian شوش (šuš), from Middle Persian 𐭮𐭥𐭱𐭩 (sūš), from Old Persian 𐏂𐎢𐏁𐎠 (çūšā), from Elamite 𒀸𒋗𒊺𒂗 (šušen). Doublet of Susa and Sus.

Words formed from shush

Words that rhyme with shush

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Questions about shush

What does shush mean?
Shush means to be quiet; to keep quiet.
What is shush in Malayalam?
Shush in Malayalam is പ്ഫ (ppha). See Shush meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is shush?
Shush can be a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce shush?
Shush is pronounced /ʃʊʃ/.
What is the past tense of shush?
The past tense of shush is shushed.

Words near shush in the dictionary

  1. Shurugwi
  2. shuruk
  3. shuruks
  4. Shuruppak
  5. SHUs
  6. shush
  7. Shusha
  8. Shushan
  9. Shushanik
  10. shushed
  11. shushee

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shush (page history and authors); Shush (page history and authors); പ്ഫ (Malayalam) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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