英和和英

語源

Of imitative origin.

発音

• IPA: /ʍʊʃ/, /wʊʃ/, /ʍuːʃ/, /wuːʃ/
• (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA: /ʍʉʃ/, /wʉʃ/

  韻: -ʊʃ, -uːʃ

名詞

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 The New York Times‎:

     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!”

2. (MLE, slang) A homicide by shooting.
3. (MLE, slang) A gun.

動詞

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

1. (intransitive) To make a breathy sound like a whoosh.
2. (ambitransitive) To pass by quickly.
   1. (intransitive, figuratively) To happen while bypassing someone's detailed awareness, to have someone miss the point.
3. (transitive) To cause to pass quickly.
   • 2023 January 14, Trocheck Mate @RSolisByx, Twitter‎:

     Twitter whooshed your tweet away before I read all of it lmao.

4. (transitive, MLE, slang) To kill by gun, to shoot.
   • 2019 September 29, Moscow17, “All For The Cause”‎:

     Man do it for the team
     Kick him and swing him on landing
     The olders are whooshed
     Brass and bruck
     I promise all of them has been (dun out 'ere)

   • 2020 August 27, A.M, “I Ain’t A Yardie” (track 10), in Mally‎:

     How many man got whooshed like Jackson?

   • 2022 April 27, Tight Road Baby, “Plugged In” (track 10), in Fumez the Engineer, C Dot (music), Plugged In: S5 (2022)‎:

     How many man's been whooshed with the stick?

間投詞

whoosh

1. Imitates anything passing by quickly and more or less close.
   • 1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 92:

     I was batting when Nikki sent down a lollipop and whoosh, what a shot.

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

派生語