Whoosh vs Zhoosh - What's the difference?
whoosh | zhoosh |
A breathy sound like that of an object passing at high speed.
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* "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." —Douglas Adams
To make a breathy sound like a whoosh.
To tweak, finesse or improve (something); to make more appealing or exciting. Usually with (up).
*2013 , (Hilary Mantel), ‘Royal Bodies’, London Review of Books , 35.IV:
*:Get your pink frilly frocks out, zhuzh up your platinum locks. We are all Barbara Cartland now.
As verbs the difference between whoosh and zhoosh
is that whoosh is to make a breathy sound like a whoosh while zhoosh is to tweak, finesse or improve (something); to make more appealing or exciting. Usually with {{term|up}}.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).As an adjective zhoosh is
stylish, hot, cool.whoosh
English
Noun
(es)- 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!”