shoosh
Part of speech: intj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Phonetic alteration of shush.
Inflected forms:
form: shooshes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: shooshes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: shooshing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: shooshed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: shooshed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A whooshing noise.
pos: intj
examples: 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!
Suddenly Manakin twisted his torso, flung up his arms, and went, 'Shoosh!' It was so fine an imitation of a gunshot that everyone jumped.
gloss: A rhythmic whispering noise.
pos: intj
examples: 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.
gloss: The sound of skis scraping on snow.
pos: intj
examples: 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.
gloss: A whooshing noise.
pos: noun
gloss: A rhythmic whispering noise.
pos: noun
examples: 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
gloss: The sound of skis scraping on snow.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: To make or cause to make a shoosh; to move with a shoosh.
pos: verb
examples: 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.
gloss: To shush, to hush, to be quiet; to tell someone to be quiet.
pos: verb
examples: "Sh!"
"I won't shoosh!["]
She raised two fingers to Boogaloo's lips, lightly touched them, shooshed him quiet.
Actually, what she'd be telling him now was to get Ed home. Because he was really crying.
'Shoosh Ed, shoosh little Eddie-boy.'
gloss: To ski, especially in a gentle downhill curve.
pos: verb
examples: 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.
Teaching aside, a lot of the time it's my job to translate — ski lingo, that is. Like when people ask me what it is to 'shoosh'. And I'll explain it's carving turns down gentle slopes.
Related words: shush
whoosh
zhoosh
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