Hoosh

Quick meaning: Hoosh is a noun meaning A whooshing sound.

Meaning

A whooshing sound.

More Meanings

1. (Antarctica, chiefly historical) A stew made from pemmican or other meat, thickened with biscuit.
2. (intransitive) To move with a rushing sound; to whoosh.

Example Sentences

From downstairs we heard a hoosh as the boiler started. The pipes clanked a little while Frankie B talked more about his trip.

Christmas Day was spent at this camp, and, as was the case with the other sledging expeditions that were out at the time, a special feast was provided. For breakfast they had hoosh, sardines in tomato sauce and raisins; for lunch Garibaldi biscuits and jelly; and for dinner potted boneless chicken and a small plum pudding.

They are magnificent animals, averaging 80 lbs. in weight, with a wonderful capacity for endurance in intense cold on very little food. Four such dogs with three men have hauled a load of 1,380 lbs. over soft snow ay 10 miles a day for many weeks. Their staple food was 1½ lbs. of Spratt's cod liver oil biscuits per day; this ration, with a hot hoosh every three days, keeping them in splendid health.

Word Forms

• hooshes
• hooch
• hooshing
• hooshed

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include shoosh, whooshing, woosh, whoosh, swoosh, whiff-whaff.

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