Shoosh

Quick meaning: Shoosh is an interjection meaning A whooshing noise.

Meaning

A whooshing noise.

More Meanings

1. A rhythmic whispering noise.
2. The sound of skis scraping on snow.
3. To make or cause to make a shoosh; to move with a shoosh.
4. To shush, to hush, to be quiet; to tell someone to be quiet.
5. To ski, especially in a gentle downhill curve.

Example Sentences

There came suddenly out of the surrounding din of battle four quick car-filling rushes of sound--sh-sh-sh-shoosh--ba-ba-ba-bang!

Suddenly Manakin twisted his torso, flung up his arms, and went, 'Shoosh!' It was so fine an imitation of a gunshot that everyone jumped.

The only sound a skier brings to the woods is the occasional creak of a rucksack strap and the faint “shoosh” of skis gliding over the crisp snow.

As I drove through the vacant lot, the only sounds were the crunch of gravel beneath my tires and the yawp of blue jays overhead and the shoosh of wind through the pines.

Word Forms

• shooshes
• shooshing
• shooshed

Related Words

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

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