swish

from 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}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Swish \Swish\, v. i.
   To dash; to swash.
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from 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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from 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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from V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006)
SWISH
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from 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

    

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