| 释义 |
▪ I. swoosh, int. (and adv.)|swuːʃ|
[f. swoosh v. and n.; cf. whoosh int.]
An exclamation representing a rushing sound or movement, esp. through the air. Also as adv., with a ‘swoosh’.
1924Dialect Notes V. 258 Articulate interjections..swoosh (rustling). 1939J. Masefield Live & Kicking Ned 310, I dipped it [sc. the bucket] into the conduit and flung its contents swoosh into the blaze. 1977Washington Post 3 June b3/1, I get outside and, swoosh, man, I'm traveling at something approaching the speed of sound. 1989Best of Topper vi. 33 Swoosh! The water came blasting so fiercely from the nozzle that it knocked Dad flat on his face!
▪ II. swoosh, v.|swuːʃ|
[Imitative.]
intr. To make a noise expressed by the syllable ‘swoosh’. So swoosh n., such a noise, or movement accompanied by such a noise.
1867F. Francis Bk. Angling ix. (1880) 323 When I hear an angler's rod ‘swooshing’ through the air. 1885Chamb. Jrnl. 12 Sept. 578/2 Great foam-crested billows..passing harmlessly under her stern with a swoosh. 1906Daily Chron. 20 Aug. 4/4 The sea swooshed along the groynes and revetments. 1916Boyd Cable Action Front 252 The next instant a dark object fell with a swoosh and a thump in the bottom of the trench. |