shushing
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English[edit]
Verb[edit]
shushing
- present participle and gerund of shush
Noun[edit]
shushing (plural shushings)
- The act of making a shush sound to silence somebody.
- 2011, Janet Dailey, American Dreams, page 143:
- 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.