What does hush mean?
Definitions for hush
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This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word hush.
Princeton's WordNet
hush, stillness, stillverb
(poetic) tranquil silence
"the still of the night"
hushverb
become quiet or still; fall silent
"hush my baby!"
hush, quieten, silence, still, shut up, hush upverb
cause to be quiet or not talk
"Please silence the children in the church!"
quieten, hush, quiet, quiesce, quiet down, pipe downverb
become quiet or quieter
"The audience fell silent when the speaker entered"
hushverb
wash by removing particles
"Wash ores"
hushverb
run water over the ground to erode (soil), revealing the underlying strata and valuable minerals
Wiktionary
hushnoun
A silence, especially after some noise
hushnoun
A mining method using water
hushverb
to become quiet
hushverb
to make quiet
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Hushadjective
Still; silent; quiet.
Etymology: from the interjection.
As we often see, against some storm,
A silence in the heav’ns, the rack stand still,
The bold winds speechless, and the orb below
As hush as death. William Shakespeare, Hamlet.HUSHinterj.
Silence! be still! no noise!
Etymology: Without etymology.
The king hath done you wrong; but hush! ’tis so. William Shakespeare.
There’s something else to do; hush and be mute,
Or else our spell is marr’d. William Shakespeare, Tempest.To Hushverb
To still; to silence; to quiet; to appease.
Yet can I not of such tame patience boast,
As to be husht, and nought at all to say. William Shakespeare, Rich. II.It was my breath that blew this tempest up,
Upon your stubborn usage of the pope;
But since you are a gentle convertite,
My tongue shall hush again this storm of war,
And make fair weather in your blust’ring land. William Shakespeare, K. John.Speak softly;
All’s husht as midnight yet. William Shakespeare, Tempest.My love would speak; my duty hushes me. William Shakespeare.
When in a bed of straw we shrink together,
And the bleak winds shall whistle round our heads,
Wilt thou then talk thus to me? Wilt thou then
Hush my cares thus, and shelter me with love? Thomas Otway.Hush’d as midnight silence go;
He will not have your acclamations now. Dryden.Her fire at length is kind,
Calms ev’ry storm, and hushes ev’ry wind;
Prepares his empire for his daughter’s ease,
And for his hatching nephews smooths the seas. Dryden.Upon his rising the court was hushed, and a whisper ran. Joseph Addison, Spectator.
To Hushverb
To be still; to be silent.
Etymology: from the interjection.
This frown’d, that fawn’d, the third for shame did blush;
Another seemed envious or coy;
Another in her teeth did gnaw a rush;
But at these strangers presence every one did hush. F. Queen.
Wikipedia
Hush
Hush is a song written by American composer and musician Joe South, for recording artist Billy Joe Royal, whose single peaked at number 52 on the Billboard Hot 100 on 28 October – 11 November 1967, and No. 45 in Canada. South himself recorded the song in 1968, and included it on his second album, Games People Play. Deep Purple and Kula Shaker had later hits with covers of the song, in 1968 and 1996 respectively.
ChatGPT
hush
Hush is a verb typically used to refer to the act of making quiet, calm, or causing to stop making noise. Used as a noun, it refers to silence or a period of quiet. It is also often used as an interjection to tell someone to be quiet or to stop talking.
Webster Dictionary
Hushverb
to still; to silence; to calm; to make quiet; to repress the noise or clamor of
Hushverb
to appease; to allay; to calm; to soothe
Hushverb
to become or to keep still or quiet; to become silent; -- esp. used in the imperative, as an exclamation; be still; be silent or quiet; make no noise
Hushnoun
stillness; silence; quiet
Hushadjective
silent; quiet
Etymology: [OE. huschen, hussen, prob. of imitative origin; cf. LG. hussen to lull to sleep, G. husch quick, make haste, be silent.]
Wikidata
Hush
Hush is a fictional character, a comic book supervillain who appears in comic books published by DC Comics. He was usually an enemy of Batman. Created by writer Jeph Loeb and artist Jim Lee, the character first appeared in Batman #609, as part of the 12-issue storyline, Batman: Hush. Hush resurfaced in Batman: Gotham Knights, and later in Detective Comics and Batman: Streets of Gotham.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Hush
hush, interj. or imper. silence! be still!—adj. silent: quiet.—v.t. to make quiet: (min.) to clear off soil, &c., overlying the bed-rock.—ns. Hush′aby, a lullaby used to soothe babies to sleep; Hush′-mon′ey, money given as a bribe to hush or make one keep silent.—Hush up, to stifle, suppress: to be silent. [Imit. Cf. hist and whist.]
Dictionary of Nautical Terms
hush
A name of the lump-fish, denoting the female.
Rap Dictionary
hushnoun
Silence. "You all in a hush, silent, trying to listen" -- DJ Krush f/ Black Thought (Zen Approach) also an MC, a friend of Eminem, MC HUSH.
hushverb
Stop talkin, be quiet. "Hush baby, wanna let ya know" -- LL Cool J f/ 7 Aurelius (Hush)
Suggested Resources
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Surnames Frequency by Census Records
HUSH
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Hush is ranked #53072 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Hush surname appeared 390 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Hush.
67.1% or 262 total occurrences were White.
28.7% or 112 total occurrences were Black.
2.3% or 9 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of hush in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of hush in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
Examples of hush in a Sentence
I don’t know what goes into paying hush money to a porn star to secure silence over some type of alleged affair, i just, I can’t speak to that.
Mrs Patrick Campbell, to George Bernard Shaw:
When you were quite a little boy, somebody ought to have said ``hush' just once.
> Washington( CNN) In one of the most anticipated congressional hearings in -- at least -- a generation, Michael Cohens spent better than six hours answering questions from members of Committee Democrats about the decade he spent working for Donald Trump.Much of the hearing was simply partisan jousting. Committee Democrats sought to tease out details of Trump's role in hush money payments made to two women alleging affairs with Ivanka Trump in the mid-2000s, and how long conversations about the Trump Tower Moscow project continued into the 2016 general election campaign. Republicans sought to remind people that Cohen was a liar, having already pleaded guilty to lying to Congress, and was likely to write a book about his experiences. ( I'm still not sure what that second point has to do with anything, but that's what they focused on !) Amid all of the yelling and partisanship, however, we did learn some things from Cohen. And he confirmed some other things. My list is below.1. Cohen said Ivanka Trump spoke with Roger Stone about WikiLeaksSaid Cohen in Ivanka Trump opening statement :.
I think she is still coming to terms with the loss, and if I were in her shoes, so would I, i don’t think the answer is to hush her up or, you know, take her away from the public view. I think she has a lot to offer.
The dealers on it are keeping it hush-hush until they are ready to come to market.
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- يصمت, يجعلـ ... يصمتArabic
- stilhedDanish
- Ruhe, still werden, Stille, zum Schweigen bringen, verstummenGerman
- silencio, callar, callarseSpanish
- hysFinnish
- silenceFrench
- चुप रहनाHindi
- 静けさ, 黙るJapanese
- zamilknąć, uciszać, uciszyćPolish
- замолкать, замолчать, молчание, тишина, замолкнуть, успокаивать, утихомириватьRussian
- zamĺknuť, stíchnuť, ticho, zmĺknuť, utíšiťSlovak
- im lặngVietnamese
- 嘘Chinese
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