Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A sibilant sound.
- noun A swift movement or flow; a rush or spurt.
- intransitive verb To make a soft sibilant sound.
- intransitive verb To move or flow swiftly, often when making such a sound.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
breathy sound like that of an object passing at high speed. - verb To make a
breathy sound like a whoosh.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb gush or squirt out
- noun the noise produced by the sudden rush of a fluid (a gas or liquid)
- verb move with a whooshing sound
- verb move with a sibilant sound
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Barbara went out to the parking lot and a lot more men in suits with earpieces came down into the lobby and then "whoosh" - a huddle came out of the elevator, jumped into a car and was gone.
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Led by Rahm Emanuel, a stalwart Clintonian factotum and grandee of the now obsolete DLC, the exodus from Clinton's campaign recalled the whoosh of gas escaping from a hot air balloon over the Grand Canyon.
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Among other segments, the boob-a-thon included Anna Nicole Smith pantomiming the various sizes of implants she has had using a "whoosh" - like noise and an all-bra fashion show with running commentary from a male audience member ( "Me like that one.
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Among other segments, the boob-a-thon included Anna Nicole Smith pantomiming the various sizes of implants she has had using a "whoosh" - like noise and an all-bra fashion show with running commentary from a male audience member ( "Me like that one.
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Among other segments, the boob-a-thon included Anna Nicole Smith pantomiming the various sizes of implants she has had using a "whoosh" - like noise and an all-bra fashion show with running commentary from a male audience member ( "Me like that one.
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Among other segments, the boob-a-thon included Anna Nicole Smith pantomiming the various sizes of implants she has had using a "whoosh" - like noise and an all-bra fashion show with running commentary from a male audience member ( "Me like that one.
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Among other segments, the boob-a-thon included Anna Nicole Smith pantomiming the various sizes of implants she has had using a "whoosh" - like noise and an all-bra fashion show with running commentary from a male audience member ( "Me like that one.
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Among other segments, the boob-a-thon included Anna Nicole Smith pantomiming the various sizes of implants she has had using a "whoosh" - like noise and an all-bra fashion show with running commentary from a male audience member ( "Me like that one.
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Foods that go "whoosh" don't leave us with a sense of being well fed.
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There was a wonderful 'whoosh' every time one of the blades came round.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
yarb commented on the word whoosh
...drank a large Campari
with two ice chunks and a whoosh of soda...
- Peter Reading, Luncheon, from The Prison Cell and Barrel Mystery, 1976
June 23, 2008
bilby commented on the word whoosh
Neat quote, yarb.
May 15, 2009