husher

English

Etymology 1

From 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.
   • c. 1595–1596 (date written), W. Shakespere [i.e., William Shakespeare], A Pleasant Conceited Comedie Called, Loues Labors Lost. […] (First Quarto), London: […] W[illiam] W[hite] for Cut[h]bert Burby, published 1598, →OCLC; republished as Shakspere’s Loves Labours Lost (Shakspere-Quarto Facsimiles; no. 5), London: W[illiam] Griggs, […], [1880], →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii], signature H2, recto, lines 234–237:

     [N]ay he can ſing / A meane moſt meanely, and in huſhering, / Mende him vvho can, the Ladies call him ſvveete.

     A gerund use.