shushing

noun

shushing

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.2011, Janet Dailey, American Dreams, page 143:

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