different between shush vs shash

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???/, /???/
• Rhymes: -??, -??

Verb

shush (third-person singular simple present shushes, present participle shushing, simple past and past participle shushed)

1. (onomatopoeia, intransitive) To be quiet; to keep quiet.

   He wouldn't shush so I kicked him.

2. (onomatopoeia, transitive or intransitive) To ask someone to be quiet, especially by saying shh.

   The boy in front of us was making too much noise, so we shushed him.

Derived terms

See also

• shh

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æ?/
• Rhymes: -æ?

Etymology 1

See sash.

Noun

shash (plural shashes)

1. (obsolete) The scarf of a turban.
   • 1650, Thomas Fuller, A Pisgah-Sight of Palestine

     fine linen or silk is called Shashes worn at this day about the heads of eastern people

2. (obsolete) A sash.

Etymology 2

Imitative?

Noun

shash (uncountable)

1. (television) Synonym of snow (“random pattern of dots when there is no signal”)
   • 1997, Paul Kriwaczek, Documentary for the Small Screen

     Even productions designed for office or home video viewing usually need a title sequence to mark off the empty tape, hiss and shash from the prepared recording […]

   • 2012, Paul Farley, Michael Symmons Roberts, Edgelands: Journeys Into England's True Wilderness (page 159)

     No one sees shash now, but it was naked television. Shash was the term for those black-and-burst patterns that danced across the screen when there was nothing being broadcast.

References

• 1976, Brian Armstrong, The Glossary of TV Terms (page 80)

Anagrams

• shahs, sh?hs

Navajo

Etymology

Compare Ahtna sos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????/

Noun

shash

1. bear (animal)

Derived terms

• shash bigh????gi hadzíbáhí (“grizzly bear”)
• shash biza?azis hólóní (“koala”)
• shash ?igaígíí (“polar bear”)
• shash ?igaii (“polar bear”)
• shash ?izhin dóó ?igaígíí (“panda”)
• shash na?azísí (“wombat”)
• shash nát?oh
• shash ndilna?ii (“sloth bear”)
• shash yáázh
• shash yázhí (“sun bear”)
• shashtsoh (“brown bear”)
• tsinlátah shash ?ichí?ígíí (“red panda”)

Western Apache

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?a?]

Noun

shash

1. bear