shush
Verb
Meaning
silence (someone) by uttering `shush!'
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As we saw in Episode 2, Octavia becoming a midwife and helping Diyoza deliver her beautiful baby Hope, and to soothe and shush the baby, she put her pinky in baby Hope's mouth.
Furthermore, it's an election year for the Guild, pitting lntuitionist candidate Orville Lever against crafty Empiricist Frank Chancre, who has surreptitiously enlisted the muscle of mobster Johnny Shush.
I’ve noticed that when he lightens up enough to pick up a mystery, science fiction, or fantasy, he too says, “Shush!
"Will he just shush for a minute?"
The standard answer to that or any other interruption in our house is, “Shush!
As in, “You might think a librarian is someone who goes around saying shush.