different between whoosh vs hoosh

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???/, /w??/, /?u??/, /wu??/

  Rhymes: -??, -u??

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!”

   • "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." —Douglas Adams

Translations

Verb

whoosh (third-person singular simple present whooshes, present participle whooshing, simple past and past participle whooshed)

1. To make a breathy sound like a whoosh.

Translations

Interjection

whoosh

1. (sarcastic) Indicating that somebody has missed the point (i.e. it went over their head).

English

Noun

hoosh (countable and uncountable, plural hooshes)

1. A whooshing sound.
2. (Antarctica, chiefly historical) A stew made from pemmican or other meat, thickened with biscuit.

Verb

hoosh (third-person singular simple present hooshes, present participle hooshing, simple past and past participle hooshed)

1. (intransitive) To move with a rushing sound; to whoosh.

Anagrams

• hosho