swish
pronunciation
How to pronounce swish in British English:
UK [swɪʃ]
How to pronounce swish in American English:
US [swɪʃ]
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- Noun:
- a brushing or rustling sound
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- Verb:
- move with or cause to move with a whistling or hissing sound
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- Adjective:
- elegant and fashionable
Word Origin
- swish (n.)
- 1820, sound of something moving through the air, from swish (v.); sense of "effeminate homosexual" is 1930s in homosexual slang, probably from notion of mincing motion. Related: Swishy (adj.).
- swish (v.)
- 1756 (intransitive); 1799 (transitive), probably imitative of the sound made by something brushing against or through something. Related: Swished; swishing.
Example
- 1. I stayed in a really swish hotel .
- 2. Try theatre and music , galleries , parties in very swish places .
- 3. I stopped , my eyes widened as I heard the deathly swish of a knife being unsheathed .
- 4. The swish discos and nightclubs around corfu .
- 5. So they spend vast amounts of time stuffing and lubricating clients in private booths in swish restaurants .