whoosh

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʍʊʃ/, /wʊʃ/, /ʍuːʃ/, /wuːʃ/

  Rhymes: -ʊʃ, -uːʃ

Noun

whoosh (plural whooshes)

1. A breathy sound like that of an object passing at high speed.
   • 2012, John Branch, “Snow Fall : The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in New York Time‎^[1]:

     The snow burst through the trees with no warning but a last-second whoosh of sound, a two-story wall of white and Chris Rudolph’s piercing cry: “Avalanche! Elyse!”

   • "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." —Douglas Adams

Translations

breathy sound

• Dutch: gesuis (nl), geruis (nl), gesis (nl)
• Finnish: humahdus (fi), suhahdus (fi)
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• French: sifflement (fr)

Verb

1. To make a breathy sound like a whoosh.

Translations

breathy sound

• Finnish: humista, humahtaa
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Interjection

whoosh

1. (sarcastic) Indicating that somebody has missed the point (i.e. it went over their head).