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Whish v.1. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1928, rev. 2024. Whish v.1 Also 6 whysshe. [Imitative.] Hence Whishing vbl. sb. and ppl. a.

1   1.  intr. To utter the syllable ‘whish’ or a sound resembling it; trans. to drive or chase by crying ‘whish!’

2 1518.  Sel. Cases Star Chamber (Selden Soc.), II. 133. [He] whysshyd them booth owte of the churche.

3 1538.  Bale, Thre Lawes, B iij b. With whysperynges and whysshynges.

4 1842.  Blackw. Mag., Aug., 243/1. He [sc. an ostler] had relieved the process of whish—whishing at the horses, in imparting [etc.].

5 1897.  J. Hocking, Birthright, ii. 23. We heard them ‘whishing’ up the sheep.

6   2.  To make a soft sibilant sound of this kind, as a body rushing through air or water, or the wind among trees, etc.

7 1540.  Palsgr., Acolastus, Aa iv b. What a whishynge of the wynde is yonder.

8 1565.  Cooper, Thesaurus, Bruma spirans … whishyng with winde.

9 1856.  S. Rogers, Table-Talk, 11. You could hear the whishing sound of the ladies’ trains.

10 1860.  O. W. Holmes, Prof. Breakf.-t., vi. The lightning-express-train whishes by a station.

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