making a soft, rushing sound like wind or air moving quickly past something.
An onomatopoeia that mimics the sound itself, first recorded in English in the mid-1800s. It likely combines 'whoo' (an exclamation) with the 'sh' sound that air makes.
Onomatopoeia like 'whoosh' are some of the few words where the sound and meaning are identical—your mouth literally makes the sound the word describes!
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