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English
Etymology 1
From hush + -er.
Noun
husher (plural hushers)
- Someone who hushes, insisting on silence.
Etymology 2
Variant of usher inherited from Middle English.
Noun
husher (plural hushers)
- Obsolete form of usher.
Verb
husher (third-person singular simple present hushers, present participle hushering, simple past and past participle hushered)
- Obsolete form of usher.
c. 1595–1596 (date written), W. Shakespere [i.e., William Shakespeare], A Pleasant Conceited Comedie Called, Loues Labors Lost. (First Quarto), London: W W for Cutbert Burby, published 1598, →OCLC; republished as Shakspere’s Loves Labours Lost (Shakspere-Quarto Facsimiles; no. 5), London: W Griggs, , , →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii], signature H2, recto, lines 234–237:ay he can ſing / A meane moſt meanely, and in huſhering, / Mende him vvho can, the Ladies call him ſvveete.