Also 6 Sc. quhisch. Imitation of a soft sibilant or rushing sound, as of something moving rapidly through the air, etc.
1535. Lyndesay, Satyre, 1920. Gif that your mawkine cryis quhisch.
1692. D. Lawson, in G. L. Burr, Narr. Witchcraft Cases (1914), 153. Makeing as if she would fly, stretching up her arms as high as she could, and crying ‘Whish, Whish, Whish!’
1839. Hood, Sonn. to Vauxhall, 9. Whish—ish!—On high The rocket rushes.
1849. Cupples, Green Hand, vii. Whish! rush! came the rain in sheets and bucketfuls.
1894. Fenn, Real Gold, xxiii. 297. Whish, whirr, came a peculiar sound.
