swish

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   sophisticated; fashionable; smooth.

   This restaurant looks very swish — it even has linen tablecloths.

2. 2
   adj

   Attractive, stylish

   When the boys go swish, they always score.

3. 3
   noun

   A hissing, sweeping movement through the air, as of an animal's tail.

   As she trotted down the white path, each swish of her tail sent petals dancing through the air, falling where the bride would walk.

4. 4
   noun

   A sound of liquid flowing inside a container.

   There were four or five men in the vault already, and I could hear more coming down the passage, and guessed from their heavy footsteps that they were carrying burdens. There was a sound, too, of dumping kegs down on the ground, with a swish of liquor inside them, and then the noise of casks being moved.

From noun, imitative of the sound

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