shooshing

Verb

shoosh (third-person singular simple present shooshes, present participle shooshing, simple past and past participle shooshed)

1. To make or cause to make a shoosh; to move with a shoosh.
   • The makings were neatly laid out on a side-table, and to pour into a glass an inch or so of the raw spirit and shoosh some soda-water on top of it was with me the work of a moment.1934, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 11, in Right Ho, Jeeves
2. To shush, to hush, to be quiet; to tell someone to be quiet.
   • "Sh!"
     "I won't shoosh!["]1916, George Barr McCutcheon, From the Housetops, Chicago; New York: M. A. Donohue, page 110
3. To ski, especially in a gentle downhill curve.
   • The lift capacity, ever growing to meet demand, already enables 10,000 skiers to be whisked to the "top of the world " every hour, so enthusiasts spend a lot more time shooshing than standing around.1974 October, Skiing, volume 27, number 2, page 8

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