Definitions for swishes

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Spelling: [swish]

IPA: /swɪʃ/

Swishes is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 57 anagrams from letters in swishes (ehisssw).

Definitions for swishes

noun

1. a swishing movement or sound.
2. a stock or rod for flogging or a stroke with this.
3. Slang: Extremely Disparaging and Offensive. a contemptuous term used to refer to an effeminate male homosexual.

adjective

1. Slang: Extremely Disparaging and Offensive. swishy (def 2).
2. Chiefly British Informal. stylishly elegant; fashionable.

verb (used with object)

1. to flourish, whisk, etc., with a swishing movement or sound:
2. to bring, take, cut, etc., with such a movement or sound:
3. to flog or whip.

verb (used without object)

1. to move with or make a sibilant sound, as a slender rod cutting sharply through the air or as small waves washing on the shore.
2. to rustle, as silk.
3. to move or behave in an exaggeratedly effeminate manner.

Origin of swishes

First recorded in 1750-60; imitative

Examples for swishes

The branches make an armchair far back against the trunk, and that glossy foliage, always cool, swishes like waves at low tide.

(She swishes her huntingcrop savagely in the air) Take down his trousers without loss of time.

It swishes fast round gravelly bends into large eddying pools where in their season the salmon and peal lie.

The swishes became more frequent, the returnings almost doubling on their track.

Swish′er, one who swishes or flogs; Swish′-swash, a swishing action or sound: a washy drink.

When an elephant plucks off a branch and swishes his flanks, and thus keeps away insects, he is using a tool.

I beat the air with my stick, and it says "hoo" as it swishes; whenever I think I deserve it, I sit down and give myself food.

The doctor himself gave the signal to start, and at the word they darted with two “swishes” into the water.

Besides the rabbits we find all sorts of other charming things in the long grass that swishes so happily round our ankles.