sh.

interj.  a sound meaning “be quiet!”  See shhh.

<Sh! ...  Mr.  Phipps, what is your attitude toward censorship in a public library?  —The Complete Monty Python’s Flying Circus.> <Ell stroked her impossibly long, lush red hair; it coiled around her wrist like a living thing while another section caressed her shoulder.  ‘Sh,’ the woman told her hair, and gave the coil braceleting her wrist a tender nuzzle with her lips.  ‘Not now.  Wait.’  —Pat Cadigan, Dervish is Digital.>

n.  the sound of a lost voice.

<Her mouth was open but her voice wouldn’t come.  “...—sh.”  —Brooks Hansen, Perlman’s Ordeal.>

sh’.

n.  a word meaning life in the novel The FarCall by RedTurtle.

sh-h-h-h-h.

n.  a shushing sound, as in “Sex differences? Sh-h-h-h-h” by Robert Samuelson, Washington Post.

sh-hhhh.

v.  hush, as spoken in a whisper.

<Helmina whispered, “Sh-hhhh.  Don’t go in the dining room.  Papa has had some bad news.  —Doris Stensland, Ole’s Promise.>

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