shusher

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noun

Someone who shushes, insisting on silence

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Meanings

nounshusher (plural shushers)

plural shushers

  1. Someone who shushes, insisting on silence

    Aren’t they supposed to be bespectacled women with a love of classic books and a perpetual annoyance with talkative patrons — the ultimate humorless shushers?

    2007 July 8, Kara Jesella, “A Hipper Crowd of Shushers”, in New York Times

Origin

From shush + -er.

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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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