hush

From Middle English huschen (“to hush”) (as past participle husht (“silent; hushed”) and interjection husht (“quiet!”)). Cognate with Low German huschen, hüssen (“to hush; lull”), German huschen (“to shoo; scurry”), Danish hysse (“to hush”), and maybe Albanian hesht.

• IPA^(key): /hʌʃ/, /hʊʃ/
• Rhymes: -ʌʃ

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hush (third-person singular simple present hushes, present participle hushing, simple past and past participle hushed)

1. (intransitive) To become quiet.
2. (transitive) To make quiet.
3. (transitive) To appease; to allay; to soothe.
   • 1682, Thomas Otway, Venice Preserv’d, or, A Plot Discover’d. A Tragedy. […], London: Printed for Jos[eph] Hindmarsh […], OCLC 664400715, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals):

     Wilt thou, then, Hush my cares?

   • 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], OCLC 3968433, (please specify |part=prologue or epilogue, or |canto=I to CXXIX):

     And hush'd my deepest grief of all.

4. (transitive) To clear off soil and other materials overlying the bedrock.

hush (uncountable)

1. A silence, especially after some noise
   • 1816, Lord Byron, “Canto III”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. Canto the Third, London: Printed for John Murray, […], OCLC 1015450009, stanza LXXXVI:

     It is the hush of night.

2. A mining method using water

• Huhs

From English hush.

• IPA^(key): /hʌʃ/
• Hyphenation: hush

hush

1. there, there (calm somebody)
   • 2017, Kelly Daviot, “Hush yah, Shaneke, such is life”, in The Jamaica Gleaner‎ (in English):

     “Hush yah, Shaneke, such is life. […] ”

     There, there, Shaneke. Such is life. […]

   Georgie, mi sorry fi 'ear seh yuh mooma dead. Hush. Doan cry.

   George, I'm sorry your mom died. There, there. Don't cry.

hush

1. be quiet

   Chile, hush yu mouth!

   Child, be quiet!