Found 6 hits - Term: swish, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
swish \swish\, v. i.
to dash; to swash.
1913 webster
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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
- [3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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
see also:
swash
- [4] : WordNet (r) 2.0
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
see also:
classy posh lap swosh swoosh
- [5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
- [6] : Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002)
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