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whush

whush is the alternative form of whoosh.

Meaning of whoosh

Noun

whoosh (plural whooshes)

  1. A breathy sound like that of an object passing at high speed.
    • The snow burst through the trees with no warning but a last-second whoosh of sound, a two-story wall of white and Chris Rudolph’s piercing cry: “Avalanche! Elyse!”2012, John Branch, “Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in The New York Times
  2. (Multicultural-London-English, slang) A homicide by shooting.
  3. (Multicultural-London-English, slang) A gun.

See all 10 meanings of whoosh

Forms of whush

Noun
pluralwhushes
Verb
third-person singular presentwhushes
present participlewhushing
past participlewhushed
pastwhushed

Questions about whush

What is whush the alternative form of?
Whush is the alternative form of whoosh.

Words near whush in the dictionary

  1. whurries
  2. whurring
  3. whurry
  4. whurrying
  5. whurs
  6. whush
  7. whushed
  8. whushes
  9. whushing
  10. whuss
  11. whusses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: whush (page history and authors); whoosh (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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