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"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:English/uːʃ",
"Rhymes:English/uːʃ/1 syllable",
"Rhymes:English/ʊʃ",
"Rhymes:English/ʊʃ/1 syllable",
"Terms with Dutch translations",
"Terms with Finnish translations",
"Terms with French translations",
"Terms with Swedish translations",
"en:Firearms",
"en:Murder",
"en:Sounds"
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"title": "imitative"
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"etymology_text": "Of imitative origin.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "whooshes",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "whooshing",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
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{
"form": "whooshed",
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"past"
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{
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"pos": "verb",
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{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To make a breathy sound like a whoosh or extrude with such a sound."
],
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[
"breathy",
"breathy"
],
[
"extrude",
"extrude"
]
],
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"(intransitive) To make a breathy sound like a whoosh or extrude with such a sound."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
},
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"English transitive verbs"
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"To pass by quickly and more or less close or away."
],
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[
"intransitive",
"intransitive"
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[
"away",
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"(transitive, intransitive) To pass by quickly and more or less close or away."
],
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"transitive"
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"English transitive verbs"
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"To pass by quickly and more or less close or away.",
"To happen while bypassing someone's detailed awareness, to have someone miss the point."
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"(transitive, intransitive) To pass by quickly and more or less close or away.",
"(intransitive, figuratively) To happen while bypassing someone's detailed awareness, to have someone miss the point."
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"tags": [
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"intransitive",
"transitive"
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"English transitive verbs"
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"examples": [
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"ref": "2023 January 14, Trocheck Mate @RSolisByx, Twitter:",
"text": "Twitter whooshed your tweet away before I read all of it lmao.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To cause to pass quickly."
],
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"pass",
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"(transitive) To cause to pass quickly."
],
"tags": [
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]
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"English transitive verbs",
"Multicultural London English"
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"ref": "2019 September 29, Moscow17 (lyrics and music), “All For The Cause”:",
"text": "Man do it for the team\nKick him and swing him on landing\nThe olders are whooshed\nBrass and bruck\nI promise all of them has been (dun out 'ere)",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2020 August 27, A.M (lyrics and music), “I Ain’t A Yardie” (track 10), in Mally:",
"text": "How many man got whooshed like Jackson?",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2022 April 27, Tight Road Baby (lyrics and music), “Plugged In” (track 10), in Fumez the Engineer, C Dot (music), Plugged In: S5 (2022):",
"text": "How many man's been whooshed with the stick?",
"type": "quote"
}
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"glosses": [
"To kill by gun, to shoot."
],
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"shoot"
]
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"(transitive, MLE, slang) To kill by gun, to shoot."
],
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"transitive"
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}
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"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ʍʊʃ/"
},
{
"ipa": "/wʊʃ/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ʍuːʃ/"
},
{
"ipa": "/wuːʃ/"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-whoosh.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/6e/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-whoosh.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-whoosh.wav.mp3",
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},
{
"ipa": "/ʍʉʃ/",
"tags": [
"Northern-Ireland",
"Scotland"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/wʉʃ/",
"tags": [
"Northern-Ireland",
"Scotland"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ʊʃ"
},
{
"rhymes": "-uːʃ"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "woosh"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "breathy sound",
"word": "humista"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "breathy sound",
"word": "humahtaa"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "breathy sound",
"word": "susa"
}
],
"word": "whoosh"
}
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"Rhymes:English/uːʃ/1 syllable",
"Rhymes:English/ʊʃ",
"Rhymes:English/ʊʃ/1 syllable",
"Terms with Dutch translations",
"Terms with Finnish translations",
"Terms with French translations",
"Terms with Swedish translations",
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{
"word": "argle-bargle morble whoosh"
}
],
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"pos": "intj",
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"glosses": [
"Imitates anything passing by quickly and more or less close."
]
},
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"categories": [
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],
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"Indicating that somebody has missed the point (i.e. it went over their head)."
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"ipa": "/ʍʊʃ/"
},
{
"ipa": "/wʊʃ/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ʍuːʃ/"
},
{
"ipa": "/wuːʃ/"
},
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},
{
"ipa": "/ʍʉʃ/",
"tags": [
"Northern-Ireland",
"Scotland"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/wʉʃ/",
"tags": [
"Northern-Ireland",
"Scotland"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ʊʃ"
},
{
"rhymes": "-uːʃ"
}
],
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{
"word": "woosh"
}
],
"word": "whoosh"
}
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