whoosh

• IPA^(key): /ʍʊʃ/, /wʊʃ/, /ʍuːʃ/, /wuːʃ/

  Rhymes: -ʊʃ, -uːʃ

whoosh (plural whooshes)

1. A breathy sound like that of an object passing at high speed.
   • 2012, John Branch, “Snow Fall : The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in New York Time‎:

     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

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.

whoosh

1. (sarcastic) Indicating that somebody has missed the point (as though it were flying overhead).