[Imitative.] intr. To make a noise expressed by the syllable ‘swoosh.’ So Swoosh sb., such a noise, or movement accompanied by such a noise.
1867. F. Francis, Bk. Angling, ix. (1880), 323. When I hear an angler’s rod ‘swooshing’ through the air.
1885. Chamb. Jrnl., 12 Sept., 578/2. Great foam-crested billows … passing harmlessly under her stern with a swoosh.
1906. Daily Chron., 20 Aug., 4/4. The sea swooshed along the groynes and revetments.
1916. Boyd Cable, Action Front, 252. The next instant a dark object fell with a swoosh and a thump in the bottom of the trench, rolled a little and lay still, spitting a jet of fizzing sparks and wreathing smoke.
