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whisht

alt. 1 (context British Scotland English) shush, silence, be quiet! 2 A sound often used to calm livestock, cattle, sheep etc. interj. 1 (context British Scotland English) shush, silence, be quiet! 2 A sound often used to calm livestock, cattle, sheep etc.

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Kilfoyle heroically hustled her Thady into the house as she saw him on the brink of beginning loudly to relate his encounter with the strange man, and desired him to whisht and stay where he was in a manner so sternly repressive that he actually remained there as if he had been a pebble dropped into a pool, and not, as usual, a cork to bob up again immediately.