shush
(verb) silence (someone) by uttering ‘shush!’
Source: WordNet® 3.1
shush (third-person singular simple present shushes, present participle shushing, simple past and past participle shushed)
(onomatopoeia, intransitive) To be quiet; to keep quiet.
(onomatopoeia, transitive or intransitive) To ask someone to be quiet, especially by saying shh.
Source: Wiktionary
25 February 2025
(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
