whisht

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Interjection

1. (Irish and British, mostly, Scotland, Ireland) Shush, silence, be quiet!
   • 1952, Neville Shute, The Far Country (novel), London: Heinemann, Chapter Nine,

     “You must have loved him very much,” she said.

     “Whisht,” said the old woman, “there’s a word that you must never use until there's marrying between you […] ”

2. A sound often used to calm livestock, cattle, sheep etc.

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