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shhhht.
n.  a shooing sound; see also shht.

<She’ll shoo the men from their cameras.  ‘Shhhht... I’ll take it,’ she’ll say.  —Evelina Galang, Her Wild American Self: Short Stories.>

n.  a shushing sound; see also Shh, ssss, ssssss-ssssssshhh.

<‘Shhhht!’  Sunderland put his forefinger to his lip.  —John J. Gobbell, The Last Lieutenant.>

shhhlck.
n.  the sound of someone’s cheek getting gashed by a sword, as in the graphic novel Falcon Twin by Brenden Mecleary.


shhhlllkk.
(also shhlllllkk, ssshlkkt.)  n.  the sound of someone being impaled by a sword, as in the graphic novel Falcon Twin by Brenden Mecleary.


shhhrrrtt.
n.  a word of the Bocce language from Star Wars, as transcribed in the comic strip “PvP” by Scott R. Kurtz.


shhht.
n.  a warning hiss.

<‘Shhht,’ Tessa warned them.  —Evelina Galang, Her Wild American Self: Short Stories.>


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