[syn: classy, posh, swish]
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.
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2. To flog; to lash. [Slang] --Thackeray.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Swish \Swish\, v. i.
To dash; to swash.
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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.]
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2. (Naut.) Light driven spray. [Eng.]
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
swish
adj 1: 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, swish]
n 1: a brushing or rustling sound
v 1: 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, swish, swosh,
swoosh]
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
V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (February 2016):
SWISH
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