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Hustings vs Hushings - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between hustings and hushings

is that hustings is a platform where candidates in an election give speeches; a husting while hushings is plural of lang=en.

hustings

English

(Husting)

Noun

  • A platform where candidates in an election give speeches; a husting.
  • * 1749: (Henry Fielding), From This World to the Next
    • I now mounted the hustings , and, without any regard to decency or modesty, made as emphatical a speech in favour of the king as before I had done against him.
  • (by extension) An election campaign.
    • Washington is awfully deserted now that every congressman is out on the hustings .
  • English plurals (assembly).

    • Usage notes

    The plural hustings'' is used more often than the singular ''husting for the concrete sense of 'platform'. For the metaphorical sense of 'campaign', the plural is used almost exclusively.

    hushings

    English

    Noun

    (head)

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