shush

🇺🇸 /ʃʊʃ/ 🇬🇧 /ʃʊʃ/
Frequency
Difficulty
Tags RARE
interjection
R

a word said to make someone be quiet

Shush! Do you want to wake everyone?

verb
R

to tell someone to be quiet, often by saying 'shush' or making a quiet gesture

Lyn shushed the children when they were being too loud.

translation

interj. a word said to make someone be quiet
v. to tell someone to be quiet, often by saying 'shush' or making a quiet gesture

Word Forms

3rd Present shushes
Past shushed
Perfect shushed
Progressive shushing