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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."
],
"tags": [
"figuratively",
"intransitive",
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2023 January 14, Trocheck Mate @RSolisByx, Twitter",
"text": "Twitter whooshed your tweet away before I read all of it lmao.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To cause to pass quickly."
],
"links": [
[
"pass",
"pass"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To cause to pass quickly."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English slang",
"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs",
"Multicultural London English"
],
"examples": [
{
"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": "quotation"
},
{
"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": "quotation"
},
{
"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": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To kill by gun, to shoot."
],
"links": [
[
"kill",
"kill"
],
[
"gun",
"gun"
],
[
"shoot",
"shoot"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, MLE, slang) To kill by gun, to shoot."
],
"tags": [
"Multicultural-London-English",
"slang",
"transitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ʍʊʃ/"
},
{
"ipa": "/wʊʃ/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ʍuːʃ/"
},
{
"ipa": "/wuːʃ/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ʊʃ"
},
{
"rhymes": "-uːʃ"
},
{
"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",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/6e/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-whoosh.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-whoosh.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"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"
}
{
"categories": [
"English 1-syllable words",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"English interjections",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English onomatopoeias",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English verbs",
"Rhymes:English/uːʃ",
"Rhymes:English/uːʃ/1 syllable",
"Rhymes:English/ʊʃ",
"Rhymes:English/ʊʃ/1 syllable",
"en:Murder",
"en:Sounds"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "argle-bargle morble whoosh"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"title": "imitative"
},
"expansion": "imitative",
"name": "onomatopoeic"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Of imitative origin",
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "intj",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"Imitates anything passing by quickly and more or less close."
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English sarcastic terms"
],
"glosses": [
"Indicating that somebody has missed the point (i.e. it went over their head)."
],
"links": [
[
"sarcastic",
"sarcastic"
],
[
"missed the point",
"miss the point#English"
],
[
"went over their head",
"go over someone's head#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(sarcastic) Indicating that somebody has missed the point (i.e. it went over their head)."
],
"tags": [
"sarcastic"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ʍʊʃ/"
},
{
"ipa": "/wʊʃ/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ʍuːʃ/"
},
{
"ipa": "/wuːʃ/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ʊʃ"
},
{
"rhymes": "-uːʃ"
},
{
"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",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/6e/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-whoosh.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-whoosh.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "woosh"
}
],
"word": "whoosh"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-26 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (93a6c53 and 21a9316). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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