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WORDNET DICTIONARY
CIDE DICTIONARY
OXFORD DICTIONARY
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swish

 : 
Noun, Verb (usu participle), Verb (transitive), Verb (intransitive), Adjective

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun swish has 1 sense

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

swishv. 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]
swishv. i. 
     To dash; to swash.  [1913 Webster]
swishn. 
  •  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.

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, zip

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swish

Sibilation

VB hiss, buzz, whiz, rustle, fizz, fizzle, wheeze, whistle, snuffle, squash, sneeze, sizzle, swish.

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