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swish
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun swish has 1 sense
- swish(n = noun.event) Array - a brushing or rustling sound; Array is a kind of sound
Derived forms verb swish1, adjective swishy1
Verb swish has 1 sense
- swish(v = verb.perception) lap, swoosh, swosh - move with or cause to move with a whistling or hissing sound; "The bubbles swoshed around in the glass"; "The curtain swooshed open" is one way to go, sound
Derived form noun swish1
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Adjective swish has 1 sense
- swish(s = adj.all) classy, posh - elegant and fashionable; "classy clothes"; "a classy dame"; "a posh restaurant"; "a swish pastry shop on the Rue du Bac"
CIDE DICTIONARY
swish, v. t. [From the sound. Cf. Swash.].
- To flourish, so as to make the sound swish. Coleridge. [1913 Webster]
- To flog; to lash. Thackeray. [1913 Webster]
swish, v. i.
To dash; to swash. [1913 Webster]
swish, n.
- A sound of quick movement, as of something whirled through the air. [1913 Webster]
- Light driven spray. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
swish, v., n., & adj.
--v.
1 tr. swing (a scythe or stick etc.) audibly through the air, grass, etc.
2 intr. move with or make a swishing sound.
3 tr. (foll. by off) cut (a flower etc.) in this way.
--n. a swishing action or sound.
--adj. colloq. smart, fashionable.
--v.
1 tr. swing (a scythe or stick etc.) audibly through the air, grass, etc.
2 intr. move with or make a swishing sound.
3 tr. (foll. by off) cut (a flower etc.) in this way.
--n. a swishing action or sound.
--adj. colloq. smart, fashionable.
Derivative
swishy adj.
Etymology
imit.
THESAURUS
swish
assibilate, assibilation, babble, bent, bubble, burble, buzz, campy, classy, crinkle, de rigueur, effeminate, effervesce, effervescence, effervescing, elegant, exclusive, fashionable, fizz, fizzle, fizzling, frication, frictional rustling, fruity, gay, guggle, gurgle, hiss, hissing, homosexual, hush, hushing, in, kinky, lap, lisp, plash, plush, posh, purl, queer, rhonchus, ripple, ritzy, rustle, shush, shushing, sibilance, sibilate, sibilation, siffle, sigmatism, siss, sissing, sizz, sizzle, sizzling, slosh, smart, sneeze, sneezing, sniff, sniffle, snore, snort, snuff, snuffle, spit, splash, splutter, sputter, squash, squelch, squish, sternutation, stertor, stylish, susurrate, swank, swanky, swash, swell, tony, trendy, trill, wash, wheeze, whish, whisk, whisper, whistle, whistling, white noise, whiz, whoosh, with-it, zipROGET THESAURUS
swish
Sibilation
VB hiss, buzz, whiz, rustle, fizz, fizzle, wheeze, whistle, snuffle, squash, sneeze, sizzle, swish.
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