hush
English
Etymology
From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#HUSHCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#HUSH 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.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hʌʃ/, /hʊʃ/Category:English 1-syllable words#HUSHCategory:English 1-syllable words#HUSHCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#HUSH
- Rhymes: -ʌʃCategory:Rhymes:English/ʌʃ#HUSHCategory:Rhymes:English/ʌʃ/1 syllable#HUSH
Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#HUSHAudio (Received Pronunciation): (file)
Verb
hush (third-person singular simple present hushes, present participle hushing, simple past and past participle hushed)Category:English lemmas#HUSHCategory:English verbs#HUSHCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#HUSHCategory:Pages with entries#HUSHCategory:Pages with 2 entries#HUSH
- (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#HUSH) To become quiet.
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#HUSH) To make quiet.
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#HUSH) To appease; to allay; to soothe.
- 1682, Thomas Otway, Venice Preserv’d, or, A Plot Discover’d. A Tragedy. […], London: […] Jos[eph] Hindmarsh […], →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 11:
- VVilt thou then / Huſh my Cares thus, and ſhelter me vvith Love?Category:English terms with quotations#HUSH
- 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XIX”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 32:
- And hush’d my deepest grief of all.Category:English terms with quotations#HUSH
- (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#HUSH) To clear off soil and other materials overlying the bedrock.
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
hush (countable and uncountable, plural hushes)Category:English lemmas#HUSHCategory:English nouns#HUSHCategory:English uncountable nouns#HUSHCategory:English countable nouns#HUSHCategory:English countable nouns#HUSHCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#HUSHCategory:Pages with entries#HUSHCategory:Pages with 2 entries#HUSH
- A silence, especially after some noise
- 1816, Lord Byron, “Canto III”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. Canto the Third, London: […] [F]or John Murray, […], →OCLC, stanza LXXXVI:
- It is the hush of night.Category:English terms with quotations#HUSH
- 1905, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], The Gods of Pegāna, London: [Charles] Elkin Mathews, […], →OCLC:
- And there fell a hush upon the gods when they saw that Māna rested, and there was silence on Pegāna save for the drumming of Skarl.Category:English terms with quotations#HUSH
Derived terms
Translations
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Anagrams
Category:English ergative verbs#HUSH Category:en:Mining#HUSHCategory:en:Silence#HUSHJamaican Creole
Etymology
Derived from EnglishCategory:Jamaican Creole terms derived from English#HUSH hush.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hʌʃ/Category:Jamaican Creole terms with IPA pronunciation#HUSH
- Hyphenation: hush
Interjection
hushCategory:Jamaican Creole lemmas#HUSHCategory:Jamaican Creole interjections#HUSHCategory:Jamaican Creole entries with incorrect language header#HUSHCategory:Pages with entries#HUSHCategory:Pages with 2 entries#HUSH
- there, there (calm somebody)
- Georgie, mi sorry fi 'ear seh yuh mooma dead. Hush. Doan cry.
- George, I'm sorry your mom died. There, there. Don't cry.
- 2017, Kelly Daviot, “Hush yah, Shaneke, such is life”, in The Jamaica Gleaner (in English):
- “Hush yah, Shaneke, such is life. […] ”Category:Jamaican Creole terms with quotations#HUSH
- There, there, Shaneke. Such is life. […]
Verb
hushCategory:Jamaican Creole lemmas#HUSHCategory:Jamaican Creole verbs#HUSHCategory:Jamaican Creole entries with incorrect language header#HUSHCategory:Pages with entries#HUSHCategory:Pages with 2 entries#HUSH