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whoosh en · INTJ

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ʍʉʃ/ (Northern-Ireland, Scotland)
  • /wʊʃ/
  • /ʍuːʃ/
  • /ʍʊʃ/
  • /wʉʃ/ (Northern-Ireland, Scotland)
  • /wuːʃ/

Etymology

Of imitative origin.

Meanings

  1. Imitates anything passing by quickly and more or less close.
    • I was batting when Nikki sent down a lollipop and whoosh, what a shot. 1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 92:
  2. (sarcastic) Indicating that somebody has missed the point (i.e. it went over their head).

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
woosh alternative lexicographic

Deriveds

argle-bargle morble whoosh · whooshka

whoosh en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ʍʉʃ/ (Northern-Ireland, Scotland)
  • /wʊʃ/
  • /ʍuːʃ/
  • /ʍʊʃ/
  • /wʉʃ/ (Northern-Ireland, Scotland)
  • /wuːʃ/

Etymology

Of imitative origin.

Meanings

  1. 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!” 2012, John Branch, “Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in The New York Times:
  2. (Multicultural-London-English, slang) A homicide by shooting.
  3. (Multicultural-London-English, slang) A gun.

Forms

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woosh alternative lexicographic
whooshes Number=Plur lexicographic

Translations (9)

es chuflar (breathy sound) · nl gesuis (breathy sound) · fr sifflement (breathy sound) · nl geruis (breathy sound) · nl gesis (breathy sound) · es silbar (breathy sound) · fi humahdus (breathy sound) · es zumbar (breathy sound) · fi suhahdus (breathy sound)

whoosh en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ʍʉʃ/ (Northern-Ireland, Scotland)
  • /wʊʃ/
  • /ʍuːʃ/
  • /ʍʊʃ/
  • /wʉʃ/ (Northern-Ireland, Scotland)
  • /wuːʃ/

Etymology

Of imitative origin.

Meanings

  1. (intransitive) To make a breathy sound like a whoosh.
  2. (ambitransitive) To pass by quickly.
  3. (ambitransitive, figuratively, intransitive) To pass by quickly. ▸ To happen while bypassing someone's detailed awareness, to have someone miss the point.
  4. (transitive) To cause to pass quickly.
    • Twitter whooshed your tweet away before I read all of it lmao. 2023 January 14, Trocheck Mate @RSolisByx, Twitter:
  5. (Multicultural-London-English, slang, transitive) To kill by gun, to shoot.
    • How many man got whooshed like Jackson? 2020 August 27, A.M, “I Ain’t A Yardie” (track 10), in Mally:
    • How many man's been whooshed with the stick? 2022 April 27, Tight Road Baby, “Plugged In” (track 10), in Fumez the Engineer, C Dot (music), Plugged In: S5 (2022):
    • 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) 2019 September 29, Moscow17, “All For The Cause”:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
woosh alternative lexicographic
whooshing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
whooshes Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
whooshed Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
whooshed Tense=Past lexicographic

Translations (3)

sv susa (make a breathy sound) · fi humista (make a breathy sound) · fi humahtaa (make a breathy sound)