shut up

See also: shutup and shut-up

English

Alternative forms

• shuddup (eye dialect)
• shaddup (eye dialect)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ʃʌt ˈʌp/, [ʃʌʔ ˈʌp], [ʃʌt̚ ˈʌp]
• (US) IPA^(key): /ʃʌt ˈʌp/, [ʃʌˈɾʌp]

• Audio (General Australian):

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Verb

shut up (third-person singular simple present shuts up, present participle shutting up, simple past and past participle shut up)

1. (transitive) To close (a building) so that no one can enter.
2. (transitive) To terminate (a business).
3. (transitive) To put (someone or something) in a secure enclosed space, such as a room or container.

   The wicked prince was shut up in the castle dungeon.

   The engineer had shut the locomotive up in the shed for twenty years.

   • 1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC:

     "You know the doctor's ways, sir," replied Poole, "and how he shuts himself up. Well, he's shut up again in the cabinet; and I don't like it, sir—I wish I may die if I like it. Mr. Utterson, sir, I'm afraid."

4. (ergative, derogatory, often imperative) Of a person, to stop talking or (of a person or thing) making noise.

   You are talking so loud that I can't hear the music – would you mind shutting up?

   He was blathering on about something, but I managed to shut him up.

   Shut up!

   • 1965, Harry S. Truman, 0:20 from the start, in MP2002-442 Former President Truman Discusses Problems Faced During the Potsdam Conference‎^[1], Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives Identifier: 595162:

     This is a quote from the letter: "Went to the Senate yesterday and you should have seen the carrying on they did. I could hardly get them to shut up so I could speak, and they did the same thing after I had finished. Some said the Senate never did carry on so over any president or anybody else."

   • 1995, “Shut Up (And Sleep With Me)”, in Golden Boy, performed by Sin With Sebastian:

     Shut up and sleep with me / Come on, why don't you sleep with me?

   • 2022 August 10, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Striking a fair balance”, in RAIL, number 963, page 3:

     He really doesn't know when to shut up and leave it to those at the heart of the negotiations, who fully understand and appreciate all the nuances, to try and hammer out a deal.

5. (transitive, slang, dated) To murder, kill.

   I just heard that your wife was trying to shut you up for the insurance money.

   • 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Citadel:

     Shepard: Why were they threatening you? Who do they work for?
     Dr. Chloe Michel: They work for Fist. They wanted to shut me up, keep me from telling Garrus about the quarian.

Synonyms

• (close (a building)): close off, seal up
• (terminate (a business)): end, terminate, wind up
• (put (someone or something) in a secure enclosed place): lock up, lock in, seal in, (of objects) stash, stash away
• (to stop (a person) from talking or (a person or thing) making noise): hush, quieten, shush, silence
• (to stop talking or making noise): be quiet, be silent, fall silent, hush, quieten down, shush; (in the imperative): be quiet!, can it!, hush!, put a sock in it!, quiet!, sh!, shush!, shut it!, shut your face! (impolite), shut your mouth! (impolite), shaddap, silence!, st!, STFU; see also Thesaurus:stop talking
• (I don't believe it): get out!, never!, no!, no way!, yeah right!, you don't say!, shut the front door!, I’ll go to the foot of our stairs!

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “close (a building)”): open, open up, reopen
• (antonym(s) of “terminate (a business)”): establish, set up, start, start up
• (antonym(s) of “put (someone) in a secure enclosed place”): release

Derived terms

• put up or shut up
• shaddup
• shut it
• shut up and take my money

Translations

close (a building) so that no one can enter

• Bulgarian: затварям (bg) (zatvarjam)
• Czech: zamknout (cs)
• Danish: låse, låse af
• Finnish: sulkea (fi), lukita (fi)
• French: fermer (fr)
• Greek:

  Ancient: κατακλείω (katakleíō)

• Hiligaynon: saradhi
• Hungarian: becsuk (hu), becsap (hu), bezár (hu), lezár (hu)
• Japanese: 封鎖する (ja) (fūsa suru)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: låse, låse av, stenge

  Nynorsk: låsa, låsa av, stengja

• Polish: zamknąć (pl)
• Spanish: cerrar (es)
• Swedish: stänga (sv), låsa (sv)
• Tagalog: isara (tl)
• Turkish: kilitlemek (tr), kapatmak (tr)

terminate (a business)

• Bulgarian: затварям (bg) (zatvarjam)
• Danish: lukke (da)
• Finnish: sulkea (fi), lopettaa (toiminta)
• Hungarian: bezár (hu), befejez (hu)
• Japanese: たたむ (ja) (tatamu)
• Latin: arceō
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: avslutte (no)

  Nynorsk: avslutta

• Polish: zamknąć (pl)
• Russian: запере́ть (ru) pf (zaperétʹ)
• Spanish: cerrar (es), clausurar (es)
• Swedish: stänga (sv), slå igen (sv)

enclose (a person, animal or thing) in a room or other place so that it cannot leave

• Bulgarian: затварям (bg) (zatvarjam)
• Danish: låse ind
• Finnish: sulkea (fi), teljetä (fi), vangita (fi)
• French: enfermer (fr), renfermer (fr)
• Hungarian: bezár (hu)
• Japanese: 監禁する (ja) (kankin suru)
• Latin: includo
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: låse inn

  Nynorsk: låsa inn

• Polish: zamknąć (pl)
• Russian: запере́ть (ru) pf (zaperétʹ)
• Spanish: encerrar (es)
• Swedish: låsa in (sv), bura in (sv)
• Tagalog: ikulong, ilagay (tl), itago (tl)
• Turkish: hapsetmek (tr), kapatmak (tr)

put (an object) in a secure enclosed place

• Bulgarian: затварям (bg) (zatvarjam)
• Danish: låse ind
• Finnish: laittaa talteen
• French: enfermer (fr), renfermer (fr)
• Hungarian: elzár (hu)
• Japanese: 封印する (ja) (fūin suru)
• Polish: zamknąć (pl)
• Russian: запере́ть (ru) pf (zaperétʹ)
• Spanish: encerrar (es), guardar (es), resguardar (es)
• Swedish: låsa in (sv)
• Turkish: kapatmak (tr), kilitlemek (tr)

transitive: to stop (a person) from talking or (a person or thing) from making noise

• Bulgarian: карам да замълчи (karam da zamǎlči)
• Catalan: callar (ca)
• Chinook Jargon: k'aʔ
• Dutch: kop dicht
• Finnish: hiljentää (fi), vaientaa (fi), tehdä hiljaiseksi, sulkea suu, tukkia suu
• French: faire taire, taire (fr)
• Galician: calar (gl)
• German: Mund stopfen, shut someone's trap: Maul stopfen (de)
• Hungarian: elhallgattat (hu)
• Italian: zittire (it), chiudere il becco
• Japanese: 黙らせる (damaraseru)
• Occitan: calar (oc)
• Persian: خفه کردن (fa) (xafe kardan)
• Polish: zamknąć (pl)
• Portuguese: calar (pt)
• Russian: заткну́ть (ru) pf (zatknútʹ) (rude)
• Spanish: callar (es), acallar (es), callantar (es), acallantar (es)
• Swedish: tysta (sv), kväsa (sv)
• Turkish: susturmak (tr), çenesini kapatmak (tr)

intransitive: to stop talking or making noise

• Bulgarian: млъквам (bg) (mlǎkvam)
• Chinook Jargon: k'aʔ
• Czech: držet hubu (cs)
• Danish: holde mund, holde kæft (da), klappe i (da), klappe kaje
• Dutch: zwijgen (nl), stilvallen (nl)
• Finnish: hiljetä (fi), vaieta (fi), sulkea suunsa
• French: se taire (fr), la fermer (fr) (familiar)
• Galician: calar (gl)
• German: den Mund halten
• Hindi: चुप होना (hi) (cup honā)
• Hungarian: kussol (hu), elkussol, bekussol, befogja a száját, befogja a pofáját, elhallgat (hu), elnémul (hu)
• Italian: fare silenzio, star zitto, tacere (it), chiudere il becco
• Japanese: 静かにする (shizuka ni suru)
• Latin: taceo (la), conticeo
• Malay: diam (ms), senyap (ms)
• Maore Comorian: uɓuriha
• Maori: whakangūngū, taipa
• Ngazidja Comorian: uɗaza
• Norwegian: ti stille, holde kjeft

  Bokmål: holde kjeft, holde munn, tie (no)

  Nynorsk: halda kjeft, halda munn, teia

• Persian: خفه شدن (fa) (xafe šodan)
• Polish: zamknąć się (pl)
• Portuguese: calar-se, calar a boca
• Russian: заткну́ться (ru) pf (zatknútʹsja) (rude)
• Spanish: callarse (es), cerrar la boca (es), callar (es)
• Swedish: tiga (sv)
• Tagalog: tumahimik
• Tamil: வாயை பொத்து (vāyai pottu)
• Turkish: susmak (tr)
• Tày: bắt, đắp
• Yiddish: פֿאַרמאַכן דעם פּיסק (farmakhn dem pisk)
• Záparo: yánunu

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} ophouden (nl), ^{(please verify)} mond houden, ^{(please verify)} bek dicht, ^{(please verify)} klep dicht, ^{(please verify)} hou je muil
• Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} diam (id)
• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 가두다 (ko) (gaduda)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ^{(please verify)} دەمت داخە (demt daxe)

Adjective

shut up (comparative more shut up, superlative most shut up)

1. Closed up or off, as in a building that no one is to enter.
   • 2010. Jem (And Sam). Ferdinand Mount.

     She did not come to Court, but she must have been taken to Montagu's house, for the Clerkenwell house was all shut up and was to be sold.

   • 1865. The Wisconsin Farmer, and Northwestern Cultivator, Volume 17. Pg. 75.

     Open sheds are too much exposed to drifting snow, and they cannot be shut up and made warm enough for early lambing.

   • 1880. An Earnest Trifler. Mary Aplin Sprague. Pg. 166.

     Beaudeck is a very shut-up place.

Interjection

shut up

1. (highly impolite, dismissal) Stop talking, crying, etc.

   Shut up! We're sick of your whining!

2. (colloquial) I don't believe it!, no way!

   I got accepted to Yale! —Shut up, really? That's awesome!

   • 2004, Tina Fey, Mean Girls (motion picture), spoken by Regina George (Rachel McAdams):

     No, I know what home-school is, I'm not retarded! So you've actually never been to a real school before? Shut up! Shut up!

   • 2007 September 28, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 2, Episode 6:

     Jen: Douglas has asked me to be his PA.
     Moss: Oh. My. God! Well, that is something and a half. His PA? How... Whoa! His PA... Shut up! His PA!
     Jen: It means "personal assistant".
     Moss: Thank you. Right, OK. What does that actually involve?

Usage notes

• When used to mean "stop talking", this expression is rude, forceful and impolite. A neutral alternative is be quiet. When used as an expression of disbelief, it is not usually taken as offensive.
• The derived phrase shut the fuck up may rarely be shortened to fuck up.

Translations

"Stop talking."

• Afrikaans: bly stil
• Albanian: shët!, qetësi (sq)!, mbylle gojën!
• Arabic: صَه (ar) (ṣah), اُسْكُت (uskut), اِخْرَس (iḵras)

  Egyptian Arabic: إخراس! (ʔexrās!) (when talking with male), أخرسي! (ʔexrāsī!) (when talking with a female)

  Hijazi Arabic: اسكت (askut), انخرس (anxaris), انطم (anṭam)

  Moroccan Arabic: بلَّع فمك! (bellaʕ fummuk!), سكت (skut)

  North Levantine Arabic: سكر نيعك!, سكر بوزك!

• Armenian: լռի՛ր (lṙír)
• Basque: isildu
• Belarusian: заткні́цеся! (zatknícjesja!), зябі́ ля́пу! (zjabí ljápu!)
• Breton: serr da veg (br), serr da veol
• Bulgarian: млъкни! (bg) (mlǎkni!)
• Burmese: ပါးစပ်ပိတ်ထား (pa:cappithta:)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 收聲／收声 (yue) (sau¹ seng¹), 收嗲 (yue) (sau¹ de¹)

  Hokkien: 恬喙 (tiām chhùi), 恬去 (zh-min-nan) (tiām-khì) (Taiwanese)

  Mandarin: 閉嘴／闭嘴 (zh) (bìzuǐ), 住口 (zh) (zhùkǒu)

• Chinook Jargon: k'aʔ!
• Corsican: stà zittu, zittu (co)
• Czech: mlč (cs), mlčte, drž hubu (cs) (impolite), držte hubu (impolite)
• Danish: hold kæft
• Dutch: hou je kop, kop dicht, hou je smoel, hou je bek
• Esperanto: silentu
• Estonian: suu kinni!, ole vait, jää vait
• Finnish: ole hiljaa sg, olkaa hiljaa pl, hiljaa (fi), suu tukkoon (impolite), turpa kiinni (rude)
• French: tais-toi! informal, taisez-vous! formal or plural; ferme-la! informal and impolite, boucle-la! informal and impolite, ta gueule! informal and very impolite
• Galician: cala, cala a boca
• Georgian: მოკეტე (moḳeṭe), ხმა ჩაიკმინდე (xma čaiḳminde)
• German: halt den Mund, halt dein Maul, halt die Fresse, halt die Klappe (sg.), halt's Maul (de), halt den Rand
• Greek: σκασμός (el) (skasmós), σκάσε (el) (skáse), βούλωσέ το (voúlosé to), ησυχία (isikhía) informal, πάψε (pápse) informal
• Hebrew: שתוק (he) (shtók), סתום (he) (stóm), סתום ת'פה (stóm tapé)
• Hiligaynon: hipus!
• Hindi: चुप रहो! (cup raho!), चुप रह! (cup rah!), चुप रहिए (cup rahie)
• Hungarian: kuss (hu), pofa be, fogd be, csend legyen
• Ido: tacez
• Irish: éist do bhéal, dún do bhéal, dún do chlab
• Italian: chiudi la bocca, stai zitto, taci (it), tappati (it), zitto (it) (informal and singular), state zitti, tacete (it), zitti (it) pl, silenzio (it)
• Japanese: (impolite, stop talking) だまれ (damare); (impolite, noisy) うるさい (ja) (urusai); (polite) お静かに (o-shizuka ni); (polite and rude) お黙り (o-damari)
• Kankanaey: shadap
• Khmer: ឈប់និយាយ (cʰup ni’yiey)
• Korean: 시끄러워 (ko) (sikkeureowo), 닥쳐 (ko) (dakcheo), 시끄러 (ko) (sikkeureo)
• Lao: ຫຸບປາກ (hup pāk)
• Latin: tace (to a single person); tacete pl, favete linguis (to more than one person)
• Latvian: apklusti, aizver muti
• Lithuanian: tylėk, tylėkite pl, nutilk, nutilkite pl, užsičiaupk (rude), užsičiaupkite pl (rude)
• Malay: diam (ms)
• Maltese: please add this translation if you can
• Mongolian: хаалттай (xaalttaj)
• Navajo: nizghééʼ
• Ngazidja Comorian: ɗaza
• Norwegian: hold kjeft, hold tåta, kjeften, kjeft (no), hold munn, hold kjeft
• Occitan: cala-te sg, calatz-vos pl, cala (oc) sg (informal), calatz pl (informal)
• Old Norse: þegi þú
• Persian: خفه شو (xafe šow) (rude), زر نزن (zer nazan) (rude)
• Polish: zamknij się (pl), zamknijcie się, zamknij ryj (rude), zamknijcie ryje (to group, rude), morda w kubeł (pl) (rude), zamknij dupę (vulgar), stul dziób (insulting), stul pysk (highly insulting), zamknij mordę (highly insulting)
• Portuguese: cala a boca (pt), cale-se, cale a boca, cala-te
• Punjabi: ਚੁੱਪ ਕਰ! (cuppa kara!)
• Romanian: taci din gură, taci (ro), gura, tăceți (ro) (to a group), taci naibii (informal), taci dracului (informal and impolite), taci în mă-ta (rude), taci în mă-sa (rude), taci în pula mea (vulgar, used by males), taci în pizda mă-tii (vulgar), taci în pizda mă-sii (vulgar), taci în futere (vulgar), taci în pula calului (vulgar), taci dracu' (informal and impolite), taci naiba (informal)
• Russian: заткни́сь (zatknísʹ), заткни́тесь pl (zatknítesʹ); замолчи́ (ru) sg (zamolčí), замолчи́те pl (zamolčíte); закро́й рот sg (zakrój rot), закро́йте рот pl (zakrójte rot)
• Scots: haud yer wheesht
• Scottish Gaelic: dùin do chab
• Serbo-Croatian: začepi!, ((more polite than "začepi", but still impolite: )) šuti!, začepi gubicu! (sh), začepi gubec!, zaveži!, muči! (sh)
• Spanish: cállate la boca, cállate (es), cierra la boca, callad (es), cállanse, cállese (es), silencio (es)
• Swedish: håll tyst (sv), håll käften (sv) (offensive), tig (sv), håll mun, håll klaffen, käften (sv), käft (sv)
• Tagalog: tumahimik ka!
• Tamil: வாயை மூடு (vāyai mūṭu)
• Thai: หุบปาก (th) (hùp-bpàak)
• Turkish: kapa çeneni (tr), sus (tr), kes sesini
• Tày: bắt, đắp
• Ukrainian: заткни́ся! (zatknýsja!), замо́вкни! (zamóvkny!), закри́й пизда́к (zakrýj pyzdák) (vulgar)
• Urdu: چپ رہو! (cup raho!), چپ رہ! (cup rah!), چپ رہئے! (cup rahie!)
• Vietnamese: câm (vi), câm mồm, câm miệng, ngậm miệng, câm đi, câm đê, im đi, im (vi), im đê, im mồm (vi)
• Welsh: cau dy geg
• Yiddish: פֿאַרמאַך דײַן פּיסק (farmakh dayn pisk)

"I don't believe it!"

• Danish: det mener du ikke
• Dutch: ga weg!, dat meen je niet!, nooit!
• Finnish: älä sano!, höpö-höpö! (fi)
• French: arrête ! (fr)
• Georgian: არ არსებობს (ar arsebobs)
• Greek: έλα (el) (éla), άντε (el) (ánte), τι λες τώρα (ti les tóra), σώπα (el) (sópa), τι μου λες (ti mou les)
• Hebrew: דַּי (he) (day)
• Hungarian: nem mondod, micsoda (hu)
• Italian: ma va!
• Japanese: うそ (ja) (uso)
• Norwegian: det mener du ikke
• Polish: nie gadaj!, co ty gadasz
• Portuguese: mentira! (pt)
• Swedish: vad säger du, du skojar, seriöst (sv), lägg av (sv)
• Tagalog: hindi nga!
• Turkish: ne diyorsun, inanmıyorum (tr)

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