Shushing vs Hush - What's the difference?
shushing | hush |
The act of making a shush sound to silence somebody.
* 2011 , Janet Dailey, American Dreams (page 143)
to become quiet
to make quiet
To appease; to allay; to soothe.
* Otway
* Tennyson
A silence, especially after some noise
* Byron
A mining method using water
As verbs the difference between shushing and hush
is that shushing is present participle of shush while hush is to become quiet.As nouns the difference between shushing and hush
is that shushing is the act of making a shush sound to silence somebody while hush is a silence, especially after some noise.shushing
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- All except little Johnny, who fussed and fidgeted with a typical three-year-old's impatience at such things, mindless of his mother's quiet shushings .
Anagrams
*hush
English
Verb
(es)- Wilt thou, then, Hush my cares?
- And hush'd my deepest grief of all.
Noun
(-)- It is the hush of night.
- (Byron)