Definitions for shush

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Spelling: [shuhsh]
IPA: /ʃʌʃ/

Shush is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 19 anagrams from letters in shush (hhssu).

Definitions for shush

interjection

  1. hush (used as a command to be quiet or silent).

verb (used with object)

  1. to order (someone or something) to be silent; hush.

Origin of shush

First recorded in 1920-25; imitative

Examples for shush

When Barack Obama tried to shush "loose talk of war," he got as much traction as a vicar giving a sermon during a soccer riot.

I listened, and sure enough I heard the shush, shush of something moving in the dead leaves and dry grass a little distance away.

I was just about to say he could when again that shush, shush!

Naomi gripped the bar, glancing back and forth between her hands and making “shush” noises to focus.

Being at a little distance from her, Bert had no chance to shush her outspoken comments.

Navel tried to shush him, embarrassed, but he doggedly went on.

The orderly stopped pushing his chair and the nurse rushed forward to shush them sternly, but it barely dampened the calls.

Word Value for shush
Scrable

11

Words with friends

10

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