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Swish   /swɪʃ/   Listen
noun
Swish  n.  
1.
A sound of quick movement, as of something whirled through the air. (Colloq.)
2.
(Naut.) Light driven spray. (Eng.)


verb
Swish  v. t.  
1.
To flourish, so as to make the sound swish.
2.
To flog; to lash. (Slang)


Swish  v. i.  To dash; to swash.





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"Swish" Quotes from Famous Books



... When a swish of skirts on the stairs announced the housemaid he retreated to the bedroom, and the girl found him standing at a south window, gazing out over the fair vista of the Italian terraces and the ...
— The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley • Louis Tracy
... Ocean, sparkling in the sun as blue as the waters at Amalfi. A low surf beats along the miles and miles of white sand continually, with the impetus of far-off seas and trade-winds, as it has beaten for thousands of years, with one unending roar and swish, and occasional shocks of sound as if of distant thunder on the shore. Yonder, to the right, Point Loma stretches its sharp and rocky promontory into the ocean, purple in the sun, bearing a light-house on its ...
— Our Italy • Charles Dudley Warner
... revealed of the patience and amiability of these inestimable beasts. The man who owns the cattle on a thousand hills, who employs stockmen by the dozen, who sends off hundreds of fat, contented, happy, liberty-loving oxen in droves to end their days in an unknown locality amid the clatter and swish of machinery and with the fearful scents of blood and decaying offal defiling the air, has few opportunities of studying the nicer qualities of his possessions. He may be full of bullock lore and able to recite ...
— Tropic Days • E. J. Banfield
... suddenly over the sibilant Miss Sidonia Sabrina a quieting down, a lessening of twinkle and shimmer and swish. She moved slowly toward the huddle on the cot, parasol leading, and her ...
— Humoresque - A Laugh On Life With A Tear Behind It • Fannie Hurst
... of brown blossoms in her one hand and her garden hat in the other, she espied young Eliza rapidly approaching from up the Road and there was excitement in every movement of her slim, little body and in every swish of her short calico skirts, as well as in the way her long ...
— The Road to Providence • Maria Thompson Daviess


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