Crossword clues for whoosh
whoosh
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1856, of imitative origin. Related: Whooshed; whooshing. As a noun from 1880; as an interjection by 1899.\n
Wiktionary
interj. (cx sarcastic English) (non-gloss definition Indicating that somebody has miss the point missed the point (as though it were flying overhead).) n. A breathy sound like that of an object passing at high speed. vb. To make a breathy sound like a whoosh.
WordNet
v. move with a sibilant sound; "He whooshed the doors open"
move with a whooshing sound [syn: hiss]
gush or squirt out; "Oil whooshed up when the drill hit the well"
Usage examples of "whoosh".
Then we tripped him so he laid down flat and heavy and a bucketload of beer-vomit came whooshing out.
He felt a brush of air pass his naked legs and heard the whoosh of the flogger as it swirled behind him.
The door to the bus opened with a whoosh, and Sally wobbled out, all long, gangly, hairy legs and knobby knees, in his red chiffon cocktail dress and four-inch red sequined heels.
Next morning with a whoosh they are off east again, and in a few hours sailing are out on the ice with no land visible, skating on the gusty wind with runners clattering or shussing or whining or blasting, depending on wind and ice consistencies.
It was a gale of heat that whirled burning branches aloft, and crashed from tree to tree, leaping a gap a hundred feet wide with a deep whooshing roar and bursting the next tree asunder as though it had been hit by a lyddite shell from a howitzer.
Antenn, washed and clean and healthy, Mitchella let out a whooshing breath.
Suddenly the whoosh whoosh of the punka overhead sounded loud as a wind-storm.
When the door whooshed shut, Seeress Jenoset turned to the regent and crossed her arms.
The mile-long battering ram of steel passes to my right with a whoosh of air displacement, and I am hurtling along its side at a squillion miles per second, hearing the steady hum of the parked cars as I pass, an eerie acoustic phenomenon caused by the echo of my wheels.
We heard a whirring whoosh like an entire flock of swans whistling through the air overhead.
Overlying this, almost overpowering it, was a liquid whooshing that was somewhere between wind and river, a strange antinoise that made everything seem as if it were happening in a vacuum instead of the real world.
All the little sounds of the blowing grasses and of the horses munching and whooshing in their feedbox at the back of the wagon, and even the sounds of eating and talking could not touch the enormous silence of this prairie.
Katya looked out through the flipping propeller, the whoosh of wind mounted, and she thought, Leonid, I must leave you for a few moments, please hang on.
Whoosh, poof, and suddenly it was a sweltering summer night in New York, not a smidgeon of slush, not one snowflake.
The air handlers whooshed briefly in the now-familiar pattern, and then the far glass slid open.