shushy

Interjection

1. (childish, colloquial) An instruction to be quiet; hush.
   • The Ghost feigned concern and put his hand over his mouth, “Oooh, shushy shushy, no word from me."2006, C. Owens, The Hacksaw, the Rose & the Parthenon Parrot, page 124
   • Oh baby shushy shushy it's coldy and my legs are hurty and I need a ciggy and I ain't got one in my / bag2014, David Watson, Flight Path & Undercarriage

Adjective

shushy (comparative shushier, superlative shushiest)

1. Attempting to quieten or soothe.
   • My little sister went to the library with us once, but she said she wouldn't come any more because she didn't like the shushy lady and the glasses man.1980, Dorothy Edwards, My Naughty Little Sister and Bad Harry, page 27
   • The girl with lighter-colored hair than normal down here said in a shushy voice: “Yes. Come with me. We'll take him home.”2008, Alan Burt Akers, Scorpio Assassin: Dray Prescot 39
2. Quiet or secretive.
   • Then the audience and the actor would listen desperately for the frantic, shushy promptings of the nun in the wings.1947, Joseph Dever, No Lasting Home, page 34
   • You’d better wear the shoes you have on. They’re the shushiest ones you have.1956, Daphne Athas, chapter XV, in The Fourth World: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 158
3. Making a sibilant, whooshing sound, like the sound of the letters 'sh'.
   • I have a hat on too and the heater is blowing on me with a shushy noise .2002, S. Kennedy Tosten, M for Mall, page 110
   • I decide to leave the window open and climb back into bed, hoping the shushy waves of traffic will lull me to sleep.2008, Jennifer Ziegler, How Not to Be Popular, page 160