shoosh
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4ADJ.
faint, raw
VERB + SHOOSH
overhead
SHOOSH + NOUN
soda-water
PREP.
on, through
Definitions
intj
A whooshing noise.
Plain enough," said the man who had been studying his foot on the chair. "Some one pulled the plug." "And away she goes--shoosh!" said the big man dramatically. "Kennedy & Balch buying right and left. Open at a hundred and twenty-five to-morrow, sure!" said the quiet one quietly. Placed an order yesterday for four hundred shares and got 'em," said another, not so quietly. "And to-day they're bidding Federal Express up to the ceiling."
There came suddenly out of the surrounding din of battle four quick car-filling rushes of sound--sh-sh-sh-shoosh--ba-ba-ba-bang!
A rhythmic whispering noise.
Many women hear the shoosh—shoosh of the unborn heart at the first prenatal exam and see the face of their moving, growing unborn child in an ultrasound image early in the second trimester.
The sound of skis scraping on snow.
Shoosh! Shoosh! Ouch! The tragic deaths of Sonny Bono and Michael Kennedy remind us that sliding down the side of a mountain, like any recreational activity, must be approached with safety in mind.
noun
A whooshing noise.
A rhythmic whispering noise.
As I drove through the vacant lot, the only sounds were the crunch of gravel beneath my tires and the yawp of blue jays overhead and the shoosh of wind through the pines.
I'm a small sea captain, tasting the day's weather—battering rams at the seawall, a spray of grapeshot on my mother's brave geraniums, or the lulling shoosh-shoosh of a full mirrory pool
The sound of skis scraping on snow.
The only sound a skier brings to the woods is the occasional creak of a rucksack strap and the faint “shoosh” of skis gliding over the crisp snow.
He visually picked his way through the alpine, hearing the shoosh of his skis in the otherwise silent world.
verb
To make or cause to make a shoosh; to move with a shoosh.
The makings were neatly laid out on a side-table, and to pour into a glass an inch or so of the raw spirit and shoosh some soda-water on top of it was with me the work of a moment.
She shooshed from the glades and stopped in front of me.
To shush, to hush, to be quiet; to tell someone to be quiet.
"Sh!" "I won't shoosh!["]
She raised two fingers to Boogaloo's lips, lightly touched them, shooshed him quiet.
To ski, especially in a gentle downhill curve.
The lift capacity, ever growing to meet demand, already enables 10,000 skiers to be whisked to the "top of the world " every hour, so enthusiasts spend a lot more time shooshing than standing around.
One crisp day in 1950, Head stood in the bowl of Tuckerman's Ravine in New Hampshire and watched instructor Clif Taylor come skimming over the lip of the headwall, do a fishtail on the fall line and sweep into a long, graceful curve, shooshing to a stop in front of the beaming inventor.
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6Plain enough," said the man who had been studying his foot on the chair. "Some one pulled the plug." "And away she goes--shoosh!" said the big man dramatically. "Kennedy & Balch buying right and left.
WiktionaryThere came suddenly out of the surrounding din of battle four quick car-filling rushes of sound--sh-sh-sh-shoosh--ba-ba-ba-bang!
WiktionarySuddenly Manakin twisted his torso, flung up his arms, and went, 'Shoosh!' It was so fine an imitation of a gunshot that everyone jumped.
WiktionaryAs I drove through the vacant lot, the only sounds were the crunch of gravel beneath my tires and the yawp of blue jays overhead and the shoosh of wind through the pines.
WiktionaryI'm a small sea captain, tasting the day's weather—battering rams at the seawall, a spray of grapeshot on my mother's brave geraniums, or the lulling shoosh-shoosh of a full mirrory pool
WiktionaryThe only sound a skier brings to the woods is the occasional creak of a rucksack strap and the faint “shoosh” of skis gliding over the crisp snow.
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