whisht

• wheesht
• whish
• whist

whisht

1. (Irish and British, chiefly Scotland, Ireland) Shush, silence, be quiet!
   • 1952, Neville Shute, The Far Country, 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.

• The New Geordie Dictionary, Frank Graham, 1987, →ISBN