swish

Plural: swishes

Noun

• a brushing or rustling sound
• A short rustling, hissing or whistling sound, often made by friction.
• A hissing, sweeping movement through the air, as of an animal's tail.
• A sound of liquid flowing inside a container.
• A twig or bundle of twigs, used for administering beatings; a switch
• A successful basketball shot that does not touch the rim or backboard.
• A rapid or careless attacking stroke by the batter.
• An effeminate male homosexual.
• Effeminacy, effeminate or homosexual demeanor.
• An improvised alcoholic drink made by fermenting whatever ingredients are available.

Verb

Verb Forms: swished, swishing, swishes

• To move with a prolonged hissing sound.
• move with or cause to move with a whistling or hissing sound
• To make a rustling sound while moving.
• To flourish with a swishing sound.
• To flog; to lash.
• To make a successful basketball shot that does not touch the rim or backboard.
• To mince or otherwise to behave in an effeminate manner.
• To cause a liquid to move around in a container, or in one's mouth.

Adjective Satellite

• elegant and fashionable; ; ; ; - Julia Child
  • "a swish pastry shop on the Rue du Bac"

Adj

• sophisticated; fashionable; smooth.
• Attractive, stylish
• Effeminate.

Intj

• A hissing or whistling sound of something travelling quickly through the air.

Examples

• He got a little swish downriver.
• I shall not swish; I'll merely act limp-wristed.
• Swish the mouthwash around the mouth and between the teeth for one minute.
• The cane swishes.
• The triumphant swish of the tiles being drawn felt like a good omen for her Words With Friends game.
• This restaurant looks very swish — it even has linen tablecloths.
• to swish a cane back and forth

Synonyms

classy, lap, posh, swoosh, swosh

Related Words

swoosh, whoosh

Anagrams of swish