Pronunciation: /ʃʊʃ, ʃʌʃ/
exclamation
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be quiet: Shush! Do you want to wake everyone?
noun
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1an utterance of ‘shush’: the thumps were followed by shushes from the aunts
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2a soft swishing or rustling sound: the ‘shush, shush, shush’ of a broom on the tent’s groundsheet
verb
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1 [with object] tell or signal (someone) to be silent: she shushed him with a wave
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[no object] become or remain silent: Beth told her to shush
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2 [no object, usually with adverbial of direction] move with or make a soft swishing or rustling sound: I stood to watch a big liner shushing slowly past (as noun shushing) she could hear the gentle shushing of the waves
