shushing
verbnounattested in dialogue
The act of making a shush sound to silence somebody.
verb
- 1
Also a form of shushpresent participle and gerund of shush
noun
- 1
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.
Forms
- plural
- shushings
shun · To avoid, especially persistently; ostracize.shush · To be quiet; to keep quiet.Shush · A city in Khuzestan Province, Iran, site of ancient Susa.
shushing · The act of making a shush sound to silence somebody.
shut · To close, in various senses. To remove or block an opening,…shutdown · The action of stopping operations; a closing, of a computer,…shutter · One who shuts or closes something.