1875 W. Allan Heather-bells 1 Adown the lum the eerie whoom, O' win' lang-drawn wad painfu' boom, Re-echoin' thro ilka chaumer.

1916 J. W. Schultz Apauk viii. 166 Long afterward came up the deep whoom! of it as it struck the slope of the butte, far below.

1942 D. M. Crook Spitfire Pilot 90 The deep ‘whoom’ of a bursting bomb could be heard.

1956 ‘B. Holiday’ & W. Dufty Lady sings Blues xi. 120 There was a whoom and this big tree crashed over with a wham and a bang.

2013 S. Wales Evening Post (Nexis) 11 Jan. 10 There was a flash outside and then there was a whoom, like a gas explosion.

1888 Harper's Young People 8 May 482/1 I met a lovely lady the other day..who did not take the trouble to say ‘Yes’ to a question, but instead made a funny sound with her mouth, something like ‘whoom-whoom’, only not so definite.

1916 Poetry Jrnl. Mar. 60 It turns the wheel, And at each tug and thrust of it The body pants: Whoom! Whoom!

2001 L. Rees Horror in East 110 There was the rat-a-tat-tat-tat of machine guns and then WHOOM, that was it.

1878 W. Allan Rose & Thistle 200 The nicht win' whoomed wi' solemn ca', The young mune thro' the winnock keeked.

1932 ‘L. G. Gibbon’ Sunset Song 79 It whoomed in an instant, the whin, she set her torch into it and ran to the next and fired that.

1936 L. Durrell Let. in Spirit of Place (1969) 41 Wild pigeon whoomed over.

1956 C. D. Simak Strangers in Universe (1958) 21 He heard another jet whoom upward from the field.

2006 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 9 Sept. (Final ed.) j9 All that's missing, you feel, is a bodysuited superhero whooming in on a silver surfboard.