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SWISH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A brushing or rustling sound
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("swish" is a kind of...):
sound (the sudden occurrence of an audible event)
Derivation:
swish (move with or cause to move with a whistling or hissing sound)
swishy (resembling a sustained 'sh' or soft whistle)
II. (adjective)
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Meaning:
Elegant and fashionable
Example:
a swish pastry shop on the Rue du Bac
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
fashionable; stylish (having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress)
Domain usage:
colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)
III. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they swish ... he / she / it swishes
Past simple: swished
Past participle: swished
-ing form: swishing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Move with or cause to move with a whistling or hissing sound
Example:
The curtain swooshed open
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
Hypernyms (to "swish" is one way to...):
go; sound (make a certain noise or sound)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Derivation:
swish (a brushing or rustling sound)
Context examples:
Through the silence of the great forest there came a swishing, whistling sound, mingled with the most dolorous groans, and the voice of a man raised in a high quavering kind of song.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
