swishadj/swɪʃ/

• 1

  sophisticated; fashionable; smooth.

  • This restaurant looks very swish — it even has linen tablecloths.
  • All the shabby railway buildings in front of the station concourse have either been removed or transformed into a shopping complex and swish homes.
• 2

  Attractive, stylish

  • When the boys go swish, they always score
  • The Saints, who started the day third in the table, went marching on thanks to their own swish play and some staggering defending by the visitors.
• 3

  Effeminate.

swishnoun/swɪʃ/

• 1

  A short rustling, hissing or whistling sound, often made by friction.

• 2

  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.
• 3

  A sound of liquid flowing, especially 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.
• 4

  A twig or bundle of twigs, used for administering beatings; a switch

• 5

  ball-gamesbasketballgamesA successful basketball shot that does not touch the rim or backboard.

• 6

  ball-gamescricketgamesA rapid or careless attacking stroke by the batter.

• 7

  slangAn effeminate male homosexual.

  • "Fairies, nances, swishes, fags, lezzes — call 'em what you please — should of course be permitted to earn honest livings […]
• 8

  slangEffeminacy, effeminate or homosexual demeanor.

  • He got a little swish downriver.

swishverb/swɪʃ/

• 1

  To make a rustling sound while moving.

  • The cane swishes.
  • In the stern of the low-laden canoe his paddle swished steadily and powerfully, with thrust of straight, stiff upper arm backed by a twisting swing of the body from the waist, and with every stroke the little craft leaped as if a giant hand had shoved her forward.
• 2

  To flourish with a swishing sound.

  • to swish a cane back and forth
  • And backward and forward he swish'd his long tail / As a gentleman swishes his cane.
• 3

  datedslangTo flog; to lash.

  • After Virginia came the twins, who were usually called "the Star and Stripes", as they were always getting swished.
  • Doctor Wordsworth and assistants would swish that error out of him in a way that need not here be mentioned.
• 4

  ball-gamesbasketballgamesTo make a successful basketball shot that does not touch the rim or backboard.

• 5

  slangLGBTTo mince or otherwise to behave in an effeminate manner.

  • I shall not swish; I'll merely act limp-wristed.
  • Therefore, I couldn't imagine the men I would be attracted to attracted in turn to someone who was effeminate. Ergo, I'd better not swish — not if I wanted the kind of sexual partners I thought I did.
• 6

  To cause a liquid to move around in a container, or in one's mouth.

  • Swish the mouthwash around the mouth and between the teeth for one minute.

swishintj/swɪʃ/

• 1

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

  • "Just like parade it had been a minute before then stumble, bang, swish! Wiped out!" he said.
• 2

  The sound of a basketball going in the hoop.