different between whoosh vs zhoosh

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

Alternative forms

• jush, tszuj, zhuzh, zhoozh

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???/, /???/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Angloromani yuser (“clean”, verb) and yusher (“clear”, verb), from Angloromani yus-, yuz-, yuzh- (“clean”) and yush- (“clear”), from Romani žuž-, už- (“clean”, adjective). Cognate with Hindi ??????? (ujjval, “bright”).

Verb

zhoosh (third-person singular simple present zhooshes, present participle zhooshing, simple past and past participle zhooshed)

1. (transitive, originally Polari, Britain and Australia, slang) To tweak, finesse or improve (something); to make more appealing or exciting. Usually with up.
   • 2013, Hilary Mantel, ‘Royal Bodies’, London Review of Books, 35.IV:

     Get your pink frilly frocks out, zhuzh up your platinum locks. We are all Barbara Cartland now.

Adjective

zhoosh (comparative more zhoosh, superlative most zhoosh)

1. (South Africa, slang) stylish, hot, cool

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic, from the sound of the blender.

Verb

zhoosh (third-person singular simple present zhooshes, present participle zhooshing, simple past and past participle zhooshed)

1. To blend ingredients together using an electric food mixer.

Noun

zhoosh (plural zhooshes)

1. The action of mixing ingredients using an electric food mixer; a pulse of mixing.