Shushed vs Squshed - What's the difference?
shushed | squshed |
(shush)
(onomatopoeia) To be quiet; to keep quiet.
(onomatopoeia, transitive, or, intransitive) To ask someone to be quiet, especially by saying (m).
(sqush)
(intransitive, US, rare) To squash or squelch.
*1885 , Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn
*1909 , Mary Mapes Dodge, St. Nicholas: A Monthly Magazine for Boys and Girls
*1965 , Ezra Pound, The Cantos
* 1939, Dalton Trumbo, Johnny Got His Gun p. 12 "His feet squshed in the water as he went...He tip-toed upstairs his wet shoes still squshing a little".
As verbs the difference between shushed and squshed
is that shushed is (shush) while squshed is (sqush).shushed
English
Verb
(head)shush
English
Verb
- He wouldn't shush so I kicked him.
- The boy in front of us was making too much noise, so we shushed him.
See also
* (l)squshed
English
Verb
(head)sqush
English
Verb
- Blamed if the king didn't have to brace up mighty quick, or he'd a squshed down like a bluff bank that the river has cut under, it took him so sudden.