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shusher

shusher noun: someone who shushes, insisting on silence.

Noun

shusher (plural shushers)

  1. Someone who shushes, insisting on silence
    • Aren’t they supposed to be bespectacled women with a love of classic books and a perpetual annoyance with talkative patrons — the ultimate humorless shushers?2007 July 8, Kara Jesella, “A Hipper Crowd of Shushers”, in New York Times

Forms of shusher

pluralshushers

Origin of shusher

From shush + -er.

Questions about shusher

What does shusher mean?
Shusher means someone who shushes, insisting on silence.
What part of speech is shusher?
Shusher is a noun.
What is the plural of shusher?
The plural of shusher is shushers.

Words near shusher in the dictionary

  1. Shushan
  2. Shushanik
  3. shushed
  4. shushee
  5. shushees
  6. shusher
  7. shushers
  8. shushes
  9. Shushi
  10. shushier
  11. shushiest

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