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shushing

verbnounattested in dialogue

The act of making a shush sound to silence somebody.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of shushpresent participle and gerund of shush

noun

  1. 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
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).