6 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Swish \Swish\, v. i. To dash; to swash. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Swish \Swish\, n. 1. A sound of quick movement, as of something whirled through the air. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster] 2. (Naut.) Light driven spray. [Eng.] [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Swish \Swish\, v. t. [From the sound. Cf. {Swash}.] 1. To flourish, so as to make the sound swish. --Coleridge. [1913 Webster] 2. To flog; to lash. [Slang] --Thackeray. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: swish adj : elegant and fashionable; "classy clothes"; "a classy dame"; "a posh restaurant"; "a swish pastry shop on the Rue du Bac"- Julia Child [syn: {classy}, {posh}] n : a brushing or rustling sound v : move with or cause to move with a whistling or hissing sound; "The bubbles swoshed around in the glass"; "The curtain swooshed open" [syn: {lap}, {swosh}, {swoosh}] From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 97 Moby Thesaurus words for "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 From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]: SWISH Simple Web Indexing System for Humans (WAIS, WWW)
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