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[ US /ˈswɪʃ/ ]
[ UK /swˈɪʃ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. elegant and fashionable
    a classy dame
    classy clothes
    a posh restaurant
    a swish pastry shop on the Rue du Bac
VERB
  1. move with or cause to move with a whistling or hissing sound
    The bubbles swoshed around in the glass
    The curtain swooshed open
NOUN
  1. 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
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