husher

English

Etymology 1

hush +‎ -er

Noun

husher (plural hushers)

1. Someone who hushes, insisting on silence.

Etymology 2

Variant of usher inherited from Middle English.

Noun

husher (plural hushers)

1. Obsolete form of usher.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     And false Duessa, seeming lady fayre,
     A gentle husher, Vanitie by name

Verb

husher (third-person singular simple present hushers, present participle hushering, simple past and past participle hushered)

1. Obsolete form of usher.