WHOOSH

swoosh, whoosh

(noun) the noise produced by the sudden rush of a fluid (a gas or liquid)

whoosh

(verb) gush or squirt out; “Oil whooshed up when the drill hit the well”

hiss, whoosh

(verb) move with a whooshing sound

woosh, whoosh

(verb) move with a sibilant sound; “He whooshed the doors open”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Noun

whoosh (plural whooshes)

A breathy sound like that of an object passing at high speed.

• "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." —Douglas Adams

Verb

whoosh (third-person singular simple present whooshes, present participle whooshing, simple past and past participle whooshed)

To make a breathy sound like a whoosh.

Interjection

whoosh

(sarcastic) Indicating that somebody has missed the point (i.e. it went over their head).

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

29 May 2025

CRITICAL

(adjective) characterized by careful evaluation and judgment; “a critical reading”; “a critical dissertation”; “a critical analysis of Melville’s writings”


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Coffee Trivia

The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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