hush

== English == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /hʌʃ/, /hʊʃ/ Rhymes: -ʌʃ === Etymology 1 === From Middle English huschen (“to hush”) (as past participle husht (“silent; hushed”) and interjection husht (“quiet!”)). Cognate with Low German huschen, hüssen (“to hush; lull”), German huschen (“to shoo; scurry”), Danish hysse (“to hush”), and maybe Albanian hesht. ==== Verb ==== hush (third-person singular simple present hushes, present participle hushing, simple past and past participle hushed) (intransitive) To become quiet. (transitive) To make quiet. (transitive) To appease; to allay; to soothe. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== ==== Noun ==== hush (countable and uncountable, plural hushes) A silence, especially after some noise. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === Unclear; possibly onomatopoeic. ==== Verb ==== hush (third-person singular simple present hushes, present participle hushing, simple past and past participle hushed) (chiefly Northern England and Scotland) To rush, to gush. 1840, Anderson, Ballads, page 96, quoted in the EDD: On the fluir, bluid an punch now hush't leyke a stream, […] (transitive, intransitive, mining) To send forth a rush of water over (some ground) so as to clear off the soil and other materials overlying, and thus uncover or separate out, ore. 1750, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London (XLVI), page 364: […] worn its Chanel so deep in some Part of its Course as to work upon some mineral Substance, which gives it the Colour of Water hushed from Lead-mines, and is so strong as to tinge the River Derwent […] 1887 October 28, North Star, quoted in the NED: [He] had promised [...] that he would have a stop put to the hushing process. ==== Noun ==== hush (plural hushes) (mining) Water which has been used to clear the soil off of some (area of) rock or ore. 1879, Annual Report of the Inspectors of Salmon Fisheries (England and Wales), page 89: The great cause of the scarcity of fish in this river is without doubt the "hush" coming down from the lead mines in the upper waters. […] (mining) A part of a mine or quarry where ore is to be, or has been, excavated by an artificial flow of water. === Anagrams === Huhs == Jamaican Creole == === Etymology === Derived from English hush. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /hʌʃ/ Hyphenation: hush === Interjection === hush there, there (calm somebody) === Verb === hush be quiet