husher

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noun

Someone who hushes, insisting on silence.

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Meanings

husher1

nounhusher (plural hushers)

plural hushers

  1. Someone who hushes, insisting on silence.

husher2

nounhusher (plural hushers)

plural hushers

  1. obsoleteObsolete form of usher.

    And false Duessa, seeming lady fayre, A gentle husher, Vanitie by name

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
verbhusher (third-person singular simple present hushers, present participle hushering, simple past and past participle hushered)

present singular third person hushers · participle present hushering · participle past hushered · past hushered

  1. obsoleteObsolete form of usher.

    [N]ay he can ſing / A meane moſt meanely, and in huſhering, / Mende him vvho can, the Ladies call him ſvveete.

    c. 1595–1596 (date written), W. Shakespere [i.e., William Shakespeare], A Pleasant Conceited Comedie Called, Loues Labors Lost. […] (First Quarto), London: […] W[illiam] W[hite] for Cut[h]bert Burby, published 1598, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii], signature H2, recto

Origin

husher · noun

From hush + -er.

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husher · noun, verb

Variant of usher inherited from Middle English.

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APA

husher. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/husher

MLA

“husher.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/husher. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “husher,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/husher.

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