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shushing

n. The act of making a shush sound to silence somebody. vb. (present participle of shush English)

Usage examples of "shushing".

The hotel room was warm and her toweling bathrobe was warm and there was Lucy lying next to her, shushing her and stroking her and touching her ears.

Elementary-school students streamed by, teachers and parental escorts shushing and herding.

He continued to listen for the remote sounds, occasionally shushing the girl, feeling no imperative to end their coupling.

When I first noticed him he was chatting happily to an Irish monk in Erse, heedless of discreet shushings and murmurs of "