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whoosh

/ʍʊʃ/
/wʊʃ/
/ʍuːʃ/
/wuːʃ/
/ʍʉʃ/ Northern Ireland, Scotland
/wʉʃ/ Northern Ireland, Scotland

Rhymes with -ʊʃ, -uːʃ

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Of imitative origin.

noun whooshes · woosh

A breathy sound like that of an object passing at high speed. 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!”
Multicultural London English, slang A homicide by shooting.
Multicultural London English, slang A gun.

verb whooshes · whooshing · whooshed · woosh

intransitive To make a breathy sound like a whoosh.
ambitransitive To pass by quickly.
ambitransitive, figuratively, intransitive To happen while bypassing someone's detailed awareness, to have someone miss the point.
transitive To cause to pass quickly. Twitter whooshed your tweet away before I read all of it lmao.
Multicultural London English, slang, transitive To kill by gun, to shoot. Man do it for the team Kick him and swing him on landing The olders are whooshed Brass and bruck I promise all of them has been (dun out 'ere)

interjection woosh

Imitates anything passing by quickly and more or less close. I was batting when Nikki sent down a lollipop and whoosh, what a shot.
sarcastic Indicating that somebody has missed the point (i.e. it went over their head).

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noun breathy sound

Español	silbar, chuflar, zumbar
Français	sifflement

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@misc{whoosh_2026,
  title = {whoosh},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/whoosh},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}