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Swish

noun

A brushing or rustling sound.

verb

Move with or cause to move with a whistling or hissing sound. Synonyms: lap, swoosh, swosh. "The curtain swooshed open"

adjective

Elegant and fashionable. Synonyms: classy, posh. "A classy dame" , "A posh restaurant" , "A swish pastry shop on the Rue du Bac"

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"Swish" Quotes from Famous Books

... Swish! a sponge that was dripping with dirty water struck him square in the mouth. Some of the water went down his throat, ...

— Frank Merriwell at Yale • Burt L. Standish

... there was a faint rustling within the house: the swish of draperies on the stairs, a delicious whispering when light feet descend, tapping, to hearts that beat an answer, the telegraphic message, "We come! We come! We are near! We are near!" Lige Willetts stared at Harkless. He had never thought the latter good-looking until he saw ...

— The Gentleman From Indiana • Booth Tarkington

... 'With a hasty swish-swish of his slippers he loomed up in the ring of faint light, and suddenly appeared in the bright circle of the lamp. His extended hand aimed at my breast like a pistol; his deepset eyes seemed to pierce through me, but his twitching lips uttered no word, and the austere exaltation of a certitude ...

— Lord Jim • Joseph Conrad

... magnolias, or a tress of gray-green moss on the cypress boughs. All the world of the Salkahatchie was wrapped in siesta. The white clouds drifting on palest turquoise were the only moving things except the water flowing beneath, and its soft swish against the gunnels of the floating ...

— The Bondwoman • Marah Ellis Ryan

... flute and the violin were doing what they could to make all our hearts beat young! A picture show across the street sprayed its gay crowd over the sidewalks and a vaudeville house down stairs gathered up rivulets of humanity from the spray. Somewhere near by was a dance, for we heard the rhythmic swish and lisp of young feet and the gay cry of the music. Here and there came a soldier; sometimes we saw a woman in mourning; but uniforms and mourners were uncommon. The war was ...

— The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me • William Allen White

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