different between shush vs whisht
shush
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???/, /???/
- Rhymes: -??, -??
Verb
shush (third-person singular simple present shushes, present participle shushing, simple past and past participle shushed)
- (onomatopoeia, intransitive) 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 shh.
- The boy in front of us was making too much noise, so we shushed him.
Derived terms
See also
- shh
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whisht
English
Alternative forms
- wheesht
- whish
- whist
Interjection
whisht
- (Irish and British, chiefly Scotland, Ireland) Shush, silence, be quiet!
- 1952, Neville Shute, The Far Country, London: Heinemann, Chapter Nine,[1]
- “You must have loved him very much,” she said.
- “Whisht,” said the old woman, “there’s a word that you must never use until there's marrying between you […] ”
- 1952, Neville Shute, The Far Country, London: Heinemann, Chapter Nine,[1]
- A sound often used to calm livestock, cattle, sheep etc.
Translations
References
- Frank Graham (1987) The New Geordie Dictionary, ?ISBN
Scots
Alternative forms
- wheesht
Interjection
whisht
- a call for silence, hush!
Verb
whisht (third-person singular present whishts, present participle whishtin, past whishtit, past participle whishtit)
- to call for silence, to say whisht
- (transitive) to silence (someone)
- (intransitive) to be silent
Noun
whisht (plural whishts)
- (usually negative) a slight sound, a whisper
- (rare, poetic) silence
Derived terms
- keep one's whisht (“to hold one's tongue”)
Adjective
whisht (not comparable)
- (archaic) hushed, quiet
References
- “Whisht, interj., v., n., adj.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–, OCLC 57069714, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, ?OCLC
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