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Sqush vs Shush - What's the difference?

sqush | shush |

As verbs the difference between sqush and shush

is that sqush is (intransitive|us|rare) to squash or squelch while shush is (onomatopoeia|intransitive) to be quiet; to keep quiet.

sqush

English

Verb

  • (intransitive, US, rare) To squash or squelch.
  • *1885 , Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn
    • 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.
  • *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".

    • 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

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