Swish

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Swish \Swish\, v. i.
     To dash; to swash.
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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.]
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     2. (Naut.) Light driven spray. [Eng.]
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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.
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     2. To flog; to lash. [Slang] --Thackeray.
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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
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