shushing

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shushing

verb

gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of shush

noun shushings

The act of making a shush sound to silence somebody. All except little Johnny, who fussed and fidgeted with a typical three-year-old's impatience at such things, mindless of his mother's quiet shushings.

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@misc{shushing_2026,
  title = {shushing},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/shushing},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}