See shoosh on Wiktionary
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Wodehouse, chapter 11, in Right Ho, Jeeves:", "text": "The makings were neatly laid out on a side-table, and to pour into a glass an inch or so of the raw spirit and shoosh some soda-water on top of it was with me the work of a moment.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1990, Leath Tonino, “Seven Lengths of Vermont”, in The Animal One Thousand Miles Long: Seven Lengths of Vermont and Other Adventures, Trinity University Press, →ISBN, page 167:", "text": "She shooshed from the glades and stopped in front of me.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "To make or cause to make a shoosh; to move with a shoosh." ], "id": "en-shoosh-en-verb-lx8tPkeE" }, { "categories": [ { "_dis": "2 2 4 2 2 5 5 70 8", "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "3 3 4 3 4 4 8 65 6", "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with 1 entry", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "3 2 2 3 3 3 6 73 5", "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with entries", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "4 11 10 3 11 10 5 43 4", "kind": "topical", "langcode": "en", "name": "Silence", "orig": "en:Silence", "parents": [ "Sound", "Energy", "Nature", "All topics", "Fundamental" ], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "2 3 5 3 4 6 5 39 33", "kind": "topical", "langcode": "en", "name": "Skiing", "orig": "en:Skiing", "parents": [ "Winter sports", "Sports", "Winter activities", "Human activity", "Winter", "Human behaviour", "Seasons", "Human", "Nature", "Periodic occurrences", "All topics", "Time", "Fundamental" ], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "3 13 20 3 13 21 6 17 4", "kind": "topical", "langcode": "en", "name": "Sounds", "orig": "en:Sounds", "parents": [ "Sound", "Energy", "Nature", "All topics", "Fundamental" ], "source": "w+disamb" } ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1916, George Barr McCutcheon, From the Housetops, Chicago, New York: M. A. Donohue, page 110:", "text": "\"Sh!\"\n\"I won't shoosh![\"]", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2012, Fred Arroyo, “A Case of Consolation”, in Western Avenue and Other Fictions (Camino del Sol), Tucson: University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, page 8:", "text": "She raised two fingers to Boogaloo's lips, lightly touched them, shooshed him quiet.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2021, Breton Dukes, “What Sort of Man”, in What Sort of Man and other stories, Wellington, New Zealand: Victoria University Press, →ISBN:", "text": "Actually, what she'd be telling him now was to get Ed home. Because he was really crying.\n'Shoosh Ed, shoosh little Eddie-boy.'", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "To shush, to hush, to be quiet; to tell someone to be quiet." ], "id": "en-shoosh-en-verb-f-pM9uAT", "links": [ [ "shush", "shush" ], [ "hush", "hush" ], [ "be quiet", "be quiet" ], [ "tell", "tell" ] ] }, { "categories": [ { "_dis": "2 3 5 3 4 6 5 39 33", "kind": "topical", "langcode": "en", "name": "Skiing", "orig": "en:Skiing", "parents": [ "Winter sports", "Sports", "Winter activities", "Human activity", "Winter", "Human behaviour", "Seasons", "Human", "Nature", "Periodic occurrences", "All topics", "Time", "Fundamental" ], "source": "w+disamb" } ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1974 October 14, Skiing, volume 27, number 2, page 8:", "text": "The lift capacity, ever growing to meet demand, already enables 10,000 skiers to be whisked to the \"top of the world \" every hour, so enthusiasts spend a lot more time shooshing than standing around.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1980 September 29, Ray Kennedy, “Howard Head says 'I'm giving up the Thing World'”, in Sports Illustrated, volume 53, number 14, pages 68–69:", "text": "One crisp day in 1950, Head stood in the bowl of Tuckerman's Ravine in New Hampshire and watched instructor Clif Taylor come skimming over the lip of the headwall, do a fishtail on the fall line and sweep into a long, graceful curve, shooshing to a stop in front of the beaming inventor.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1989 September 14, “Talk about fun! Canada: The world next door [advertisement]”, in Skiing, volume 42, number 1, page 279:", "text": "Teaching aside, a lot of the time it's my job to translate — ski lingo, that is. Like when people ask me what it is to 'shoosh'. And I'll explain it's carving turns down gentle slopes.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "To ski, especially in a gentle downhill curve." ], "id": "en-shoosh-en-verb-mNcQdoUV", "links": [ [ "ski", "ski" ], [ "especially", "especially" ], [ "gentle", "gentle" ], [ "downhill", "downhill" ], [ "curve", "curve" ] ] } ], "sounds": [ { "rhymes": "-ʊʃ" } ], "word": "shoosh" }
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