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Shushed vs Shusher - What's the difference?

shushed | shusher |

As a verb shushed

is past tense of shush.

As a noun shusher is

someone who shushes, insisting on silence.

shushed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (shush)

    • shush

    English

    Verb

  • (onomatopoeia) To be quiet; to keep quiet.
    • He wouldn't shush so I kicked him.
  • (onomatopoeia, transitive, or, intransitive) To ask someone to be quiet, especially by saying (m).
    • The boy in front of us was making too much noise, so we shushed him.

    See also

    * (l)

    shusher

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone who shushes, insisting on silence
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=July 8, author=Kara Jesella, title=A Hipper Crowd of Shushers, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Aren’t they supposed to be bespectacled women with a love of classic books and a perpetual annoyance with talkative patrons — the ultimate humorless shushers ? }} English agent nouns