verb
Etymology: Middle English shutten up, from shutten, shetten, shitten to shut + up, adverb
transitive verb
1. archaic : to finish up : terminate , conclude
will shut up this melancholy subject with part of a letter — John Wesley
2. : to cause or force (a person) to stop talking
couldn't shut him up or keep him talking in a straight line — W.F.Davis
intransitive verb
: to cease writing or speaking
want this to sail tomorrow … and so must shut up in a minute — O.W.Holmes †1935
you would be wise to shut up — Marcia Davenport
sit down and shut up — Erle Stanley Gardner