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shushings

shushings is the plural of shushing.

Meaning of shushing

Noun

shushing (plural shushings)

  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

Questions about shushings

What is shushings the plural of?
Shushings is the plural of shushing.

Words near shushings in the dictionary

  1. shushes
  2. Shushi
  3. shushier
  4. shushiest
  5. shushing
  6. shushings
  7. Shushrusha
  8. shushy
  9. shusse hiro
  10. Shuster
  11. Shusterman

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