shh shh shh.

n.  the call of the Grey-Hooded Parrotbill, as described in A Field Guide to the Birds of China by John MacKinnon.

shh-h-h-hhh.

n.  a sound meaning “be quiet!”; see also shhh.

<Have you ever seen someone tell someone else to be quiet by putting their finger over their lips and saying shh-h-h-hhh?  —Cindy Crenshaw, “Emergent Literacy.”>

shh-hhh.

n.  a hissing shush, as in the novel Youth in Revolt by C.D. Payne.

shhfffff.

n.  the sound of a window sliding open, as in the graphic novel Uzumaki 2 by Junji Ito.

shhh.

n.  a sound vibration worthy of exploration, as discussed in Whole Body Meditations: Igniting Your Natural Instinct to Heal by Lorin Roche.


n.  the most common spelling for the sound meaning “be quiet!”

<Nor found Manek at last on the stairs outside the door to Auntie Guest’s rooms.  “Shhh,” he said as they came near, and Nor tapped him anyway, saying, “You’re out.”  “Shhh,” he said again, more urgently.  —Gregory Maquire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West.>

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