Shusher

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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?"

Example

More examples

"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?"

Etymology

From shush + -er.

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