Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to shoosh
Participle: shooshed
Gerund: shooshing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | shoosh |
| you | shoosh |
| he;she;it | shooshes |
| we | shoosh |
| you | shoosh |
| they | shoosh |
Perfect
| I | have shooshed |
| you | have shooshed |
| he;she;it | has shooshed |
| we | have shooshed |
| you | have shooshed |
| they | have shooshed |
Past
| I | shooshed |
| you | shooshed |
| he;she;it | shooshed |
| we | shooshed |
| you | shooshed |
| they | shooshed |
Pluperfect
| I | had shooshed |
| you | had shooshed |
| he;she;it | had shooshed |
| we | had shooshed |
| you | had shooshed |
| they | had shooshed |
Future
| I | will shoosh |
| you | will shoosh |
| he;she;it | will shoosh |
| we | will shoosh |
| you | will shoosh |
| they | will shoosh |
Future Perfect
| I | will have shooshed |
| you | will have shooshed |
| he;she;it | will have shooshed |
| we | will have shooshed |
| you | will have shooshed |
| they | will have shooshed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | shoosh |
| you | shoosh |
| he;she;it | shoosh |
| we | shoosh |
| you | shoosh |
| they | shoosh |
Perfect
| I | have shooshed |
| you | have shooshed |
| he;she;it | have shooshed |
| we | have shooshed |
| you | have shooshed |
| they | have shooshed |
Imperfect
| I | shooshed |
| you | shooshed |
| he;she;it | shooshed |
| we | shooshed |
| you | shooshed |
| they | shooshed |
Pluperfect
| I | had shooshed |
| you | had shooshed |
| he;she;it | had shooshed |
| we | had shooshed |
| you | had shooshed |
| they | had shooshed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would shoosh |
| you | would shoosh |
| he;she;it | would shoosh |
| we | would shoosh |
| you | would shoosh |
| they | would shoosh |
Perfect
| I | would have shooshed |
| you | would have shooshed |
| he;she;it | would have shooshed |
| we | would have shooshed |
| you | would have shooshed |
| they | would have shooshed |
Imperative
| you | shoosh |
| we | Let's shoosh |
| you | shoosh |
Verbs conjugated like 'shoosh'
abash,
abolish,
abroach,
accomplish,
accroach,
address,
admix,
admonish,
ado,
adpress,
affamish,
affix,
alloo,
amass,
ambush,
anguish,
annex,
appeach,
appears,
approach, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'shoosh'
skoosh,
sloosh,
smoosh,
swoosh,
whoosh,
zhoosh,
choose,
goosh,
moosh,
scooch,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
Phonetic alteration of shush.
Sample Sentences
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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. [1934, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 11, in Right Ho, Jeeves:]
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She shooshed from the glades and stopped in front of me. [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:]
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"Sh!"
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"I won't shoosh!["] [1916, George Barr McCutcheon, From the Housetops, Chicago; New York: M. A. Donohue, page 110:]
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She raised two fingers to Boogaloo's lips, lightly touched them, shooshed him quiet. [2012, Fred Arroyo, “A Case of Consolation”, in Western Avenue and Other Fictions (Camino del Sol), Tucson: University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, page 8:]
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Actually, what she'd be telling him now was to get Ed home. Because he was really crying.
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'Shoosh Ed, shoosh little Eddie-boy.' [2021, Breton Dukes, “What Sort of Man”, in What Sort of Man and other stories, Wellington, New Zealand: Victoria University Press, →ISBN:]
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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. [1974 October 26, Skiing, volume 27, number 2, page 8:]
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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. [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:]
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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. [1989 September 26, “Talk about fun! Canada: The world next door [advertisement]”, in Skiing, volume 42, number 1, page 279:]