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shoosh

Rhymes with -ʊʃ

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Phonetic alteration of shush.

interjection

  1. A whooshing noise. Plain enough," said the man who had been studying his foot on the chair. "Some one pulled the plug." "And away she goes--shoosh!" said the big man dramatically. "Kennedy & Balch buying right and left. Open at a hundred and twenty-five to-morrow, sure!" said the quiet one quietly. Placed an order yes
  2. A rhythmic whispering noise. Many women hear the shoosh—shoosh of the unborn heart at the first prenatal exam and see the face of their moving, growing unborn child in an ultrasound image early in the second trimester.
  3. The sound of skis scraping on snow. Shoosh! Shoosh! Ouch! The tragic deaths of Sonny Bono and Michael Kennedy remind us that sliding down the side of a mountain, like any recreational activity, must be approached with safety in mind.

noun shooshes

  1. A whooshing noise.
  2. A rhythmic whispering noise. As I drove through the vacant lot, the only sounds were the crunch of gravel beneath my tires and the yawp of blue jays overhead and the shoosh of wind through the pines.
  3. The sound of skis scraping on snow. The only sound a skier brings to the woods is the occasional creak of a rucksack strap and the faint “shoosh” of skis gliding over the crisp snow.

verb shooshes · shooshing · shooshed

  1. To make or cause to make a shoosh; to move with a shoosh. The makings were neatly laid out on a side-table, and to pour into a glass an inch or so of the raw spirit and shoosh some soda-water on top of it was with me the work of a moment.
  2. To shush, to hush, to be quiet; to tell someone to be quiet. "Sh!" "I won't shoosh!["]
  3. To ski, especially in a gentle downhill curve. The lift capacity, ever growing to meet demand, already enables 10,000 skiers to be whisked to the "top of the world " every hour, so enthusiasts spend a lot more time shooshing than standing around.

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@misc{shoosh_2026,
  title = {shoosh},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/shoosh},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}