[
US
/ˈswɪʃ/
]
[ UK /swˈɪʃ/ ]
[ UK /swˈɪʃ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
elegant and fashionable
a classy dame
classy clothes
a posh restaurant
a swish pastry shop on the Rue du Bac
VERB
-
move with or cause to move with a whistling or hissing sound
The bubbles swoshed around in the glass
The curtain swooshed open
NOUN
- a brushing or rustling sound
How To Use swish In A Sentence
- Both favour the no-frills approach, often eschewing swish restaurants to munch burgers together when they meet. Times, Sunday Times
- A female puppet with a fine, domed forehead entered, swishing black velvet.
- He turned up at the swish hotel suite to meet us all by himself, with no fuss and no entourage, and was utterly charming. The Sun
- They display their techniques by swishing their swords around in synchronisation.
- While there are plenty of party girls still sporting low-slung bell bottoms, the hippest in the crowd are swishing around in kicky full skirts, miniskirts and skirts with dipping hemlines.
- I kiss Bob and the kids good-bye, wish them a fun and safe day, and listen to them swish in their nylon shell pants and clomp in their heavy boots out the door. Left Neglected
- There's also a sauna (it was built in the '80s, remember), an area for a hot tub and supposedly a very swish tennis court on the roof.
- The converted catamaran will have a 50ft pool, luxurious rooms and a swish lounge bar. Times, Sunday Times
- Then what sounded like tennis shoes swishing through shallow water (I never had the courage to swim in water more than a foot deep) startled me.
- His wife of twenty-two years is sitting catty-corner to him in a turquoise T-shirt with a tropical fish swimming across her chest; but her slim ankles are demurely crossed, the resting pose of one of those fifties starlets who swished around on-screen in full skirts, sheer hose, and kitten heels. THE HUSBANDS AND WIVES CLUB