shh

Interjection

1. Demanding silence.
2. Comforting one who is crying.

Noun (1)

shh (plural shhes or shhs)

1. An utterance of shh.
   • “Shh,” says Jenny’s mother, “shh. / Give a shh and a giddyap with your borscht.” / A knock is heard on Gloria’s door. / “Remember is someone asleep in the house!” / Jenny gives a shh and laps up her borscht.1946, Helen Wolfert, Nothing Is a Wonderful Thing, Simon and Schuster, page 54
   • Twenty-five million dollars each?! There were hmms and shhs around the table.1997, Southwestern American Literature, volume 22, page 121

Verb

shh (third-person singular simple present shhes or shhs, present participle shhing, simple past and past participle shhed)

1. (intransitive, transitive) To utter shh.
   • “Hey,” the test-taker who’d shhed sat up, glared, saw the exec, shut up, and hunched down over the test.1992, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, volume 112, page 70, column 1
   • ‘No!’ Matt shhes.2007, Bonnie Rozanski, Borderline, The Porcupine's Quill, →ISBN, page 72

Noun (2) capitalized: SHH

SHH (plural SHHs)

1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of sonic hedgehog homolog (protein).
2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of sonic hedgehog gene (“the gene encoding for the protein "sonic hedgehog"”).

Noun (3) capitalized: Shh

Shh (uncountable)

1. (abbreviation, alternative) Alternative form of SHH (“sonic hedgehog”); Abbreviation of sonic hedgehog.