1713. Guardian, No. 26. A poor chambermaid has sent in ten shillings out of her hush-money, to expiate her guilt of being in her mistress’s secret.
1725. New Cant. Dict., s.v. [[386]]
1748. T. Dyche, Dictionary (5th Ed.), s.v.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v.
1852. Dickens, Bleak House, ch. xxxvii. To allow Ada to be made a bribe and hush-money of, is not the way to bring it out.
1884. Spectator, p. 530. They were disappointed of their hush-money, but he gave them an easy revenge.
Hush-shop (or -crib), subs. (common).—An unlicensed tavern.
1872. Globe, 18 Sep. At Barrow-in-Furness the new Licensing Act has had the effect of calling numerous hush shops into existence.
Husky, subs. (Winchester College).—Gooseberry fool with the husks in it, obsolete. [Notions.]
1870. Mansfield, School Life, p. 145. There were two kinds [Gooseberry fool] Husky and non-husky.