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joosh

joosh is the alternative spelling of zhoosh.

Meaning of zhoosh

Verb (1)

zhoosh (third-person singular simple present zhooshes, present participle zhooshing, simple past and past participle zhooshed)

  1. (Australia, UK, slang, transitive) To tweak, finesse or improve (something); to make more appealing or exciting. Usually with up.
    • Mostly the words are dusted off and brought out when we wish to zhoosh up the conversation, to announce a particular delight in our queenly style.1988, Neil Bartlett, Who Was That Man?, →ISBN, page 82
    Synonyms:
    spice, spruce, sweeten

Verb (2)

zhoosh (third-person singular simple present zhooshes, present participle zhooshing, simple past and past participle zhooshed)

  1. (informal, transitive) To blend ingredients together using an electric food mixer.
    • Throw it all in a blender and zhoosh it until it's creamy smooth.
    Synonyms:
    blitz

See all 5 meanings of zhoosh

Forms of joosh

third-person singular presentjooshes
present participlejooshing
past participlejooshed
pastjooshed

Origin of joosh

Originally borrowed from Polari zhoosh.

Questions about joosh

What is joosh the alternative spelling of?
Joosh is the alternative spelling of zhoosh.

Words near joosh in the dictionary

  1. jooming
  2. Joondalup
  3. JOOOT
  4. Joos
  5. Jooses
  6. joosh
  7. jooshed
  8. jooshes
  9. jooshing
  10. Joost
  11. Joosten

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: joosh (page history and authors); zhoosh (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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