Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
Definition: Shush |
ShushVerb1. Silence (someone) by uttering "shush!". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "shush" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1939. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Taciturnity | Interjection: shush! tush! silence! mum! hush! chut! hist! tut! chup! mum's the word; keep your mouth shut!. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Shush" is generally used as an interjection -- approximately 98.53% of the time. "Shush" is used about 68 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Interjection | 98.53% | 67 | 40,952 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.47% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 68 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
shush | 12 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "shush"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | shët (shut up), e bëj ta qepë gojën. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | صه (hush, shut up, shut your trap, whist), اسكت (shut up), أسكت (gag, hunt down, hush, put down, silence, smack of, still). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | шъткам, шт (hist, hush, whist). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | syknout na koho. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | هیس گفتن , هیس (Goose), هش (Sensibility), ساکت کردن (Appease, Calm, Conciliate, Quiet, Silence, Still, Whist), ساکت (Acquiescent, Calm, Hush, Imperturbable, Serene, Silent, Still, Whist). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | faire taire (shut smb. up, shut up), faire chut, chut. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | pst (hist). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | επιβάλλω σιωπή. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ל"שתיק (hush, mute, quieten, shut up, silence, squelch), ל"סוות (camouflage, conceal, disguise, hide, mask). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | elhallgattat (silence, snub, to confute, to gag, to hush, to muzzle, to put down, to put to silence, to shush, to shut up, to silence, to suppress), csitt (hush, mum, st.). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | zitto (quiet, silent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ushshay fazer calar (burke, floor, muzzle, shut up). (various references) утихомирить, ш-ш. (various references) ućutkati (silence). (various references) silenciar (hush, secrete, silence), hacer callar (gag, hush, put down, quiet, silence), chitón (hush, sh). (various references) hyssja. (various references) เงียบ (clam up, hush, hushed, muted, nark it, silent, soundless), บอกให้เงียบ. (various references) susturmak (blanket, Burke, confute, cut short, gag, hush, outtalk, quiet, quieten, score off, settle smb.'s hash, shut up, silence, squelch, still, Stow, wither), susmak (be quiet, be tongue-tied, hold one's peace, hush, keep mum, keep quiet, pipe down, quiet, quiet down, quieten, shut up, stop speaking), sus (be done, belt up, have done, hush, mum, sh, shut up, shut your gob, shut your trap, tush, whist), hişt (hush, psst, pst, sh, shoo), şışt (sh). (various references) тихо (hush, low, quietly, silently, slowly, small, stilly), ш-ш (sh), примусити замовкнути (gag, shout smb. down, silence, still). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "shush": shushed, shushes, shushing. (additional references) | |
| |
"Shush" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Khushro, Shach, Shasha, sheesh, shesh, Sheugh, Shisha, Shishko, shoosh, shosh, Shozo, Shubha, shushhh, shuss, sqush, stush, sush, swush, Uhhuh. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "h-h-s-s-u" | |
-1 letter: hush. | |
-2 letters: huh, shh. | |
-3 letters: sh, uh, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "h-h-s-s-u" | |
+1 letter: hushes. | |
+2 letters: shaughs, sheuchs, sheughs, shushed, shushes. | |
+3 letters: bushwahs, choushes, shadbush, shushing, thrushes. | |
+4 letters: chumships, hagbushes, henhouses, hothouses, huisaches, kashruths, washhouse. | |
+5 letters: bathhouses, bushwhacks, chophouses, churchless, dachshunds, households, phosphorus, pushchairs, rushlights, shadbushes, unsheathes, washhouses. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Images: Slideshow 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Anagrams | 9. Bibliography |
Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
