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Whoosh vs Whoos - What's the difference?

whoosh | whoos |

As verbs the difference between whoosh and whoos

is that whoosh is to make a breathy sound like a whoosh while whoos is third-person singular of whoo.

As a noun whoosh

is a breathy sound like that of an object passing at high speed.

As an interjection whoosh

is {{cx|sarcastic|lang=en}} Indicating that somebody has missed the point (as though it were flying overhead).

whoosh

English

Noun

(es)
  • A breathy sound like that of an object passing at high speed.
  • * '>citation
    • 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

    • Verb

    (es)
  • To make a breathy sound like a whoosh.

    • Interjection

    (en-intj)
    • English onomatopoeias

    whoos

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (whoo)

    • whoo

    English

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • An expression of delight.
  • The wailing cry of a ghost.
  • * 1949 , Robertson Davies, The table talk of Samuel Marchbanks
    • "You are mistaken; I am a ghost; whoo !" said I, choking back my rage.
  • * 1996 , R A Noonan, Wild ghost chase
    • Then he held up his hands and let out a weak ghost-howl. "Whoo ?" he moaned, in a tiny voice.
  • The cry of an owl

    • Synonyms

    * (expression of delight) wahoo, whoopee, yay, yippee * (cry of an owl) tuwhit tuwhoo

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make a whoo sound, of delight, whistling, or of an owl etc.
  • * 1891 , (Thomas Hardy), (w, Tess of the d'Urbervilles) , Part 6:
  • *:"Upon my honour!" cried he, "there was never before such a beautiful thing in Nature or Art as you look, 'Cousin' Tess ('Cousin' had a faint ring of mockery). I have been watching you from over the wall—sitting like Im-patience on a monument, and pouting up that pretty red mouth to whistling shape, and whooing' and ' whooing , and privately swearing, and never being able to produce a note. Why, you are quite cross because you can't do it."