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Shushing vs Hush - What's the difference?

shushing | hush |

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)
  • The act of making a shush sound to silence somebody.
  • * 2011 , Janet Dailey, American Dreams (page 143)
    • 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

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    hush

    English

    Verb

    (es)
  • to become quiet
  • to make quiet
  • To appease; to allay; to soothe.
  • * Otway
    • Wilt thou, then, Hush my cares?
  • * Tennyson
    • And hush'd my deepest grief of all.

    Noun

    (-)
  • A silence, especially after some noise
  • * Byron
    • It is the hush of night.
    (Byron)
  • A mining method using water

    • Derived terms

    * hush money * hush puppy * hush up * hushaby * husher * hushful * hush-hire * hush-hush * hush-shop English ergative verbs ----