shooshes

Noun

shoosh (plural shooshes)

1. A whooshing noise.
2. A rhythmic whispering noise.
   • 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.2012 [1990], Scott Russell Sanders, “"After the Flood"”, in Earth Works: Selected Essays, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 97
3. The sound of skis scraping on snow.
   • 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.1970, Pat Snook, “Ski Touring”, in National Wildlife, volume 8, numbers Dec 1969–Jan 1970, page 23

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