shushing

shushing

1. present participle and gerund of shush

shushing (plural shushings)

1. 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.

• Shughnis, hushings