Swish
verb
To move quickly, smoothly or with a swooshing sound.
The leaves were swishing in the wind.
Often appears as...
- swish the curtains
- swish through the air
noun
A swift Swooshing movement or sound.
I could hear the swish of her dress.
Often appears as...
- swish of skirts
- swish of the sea
adjective
Elegant, stylish or fashionable.
They stayed at a swish hotel in the city.
Often appears as...
- swish hotel
- swish restaurant
verb
To move something, such as a liquid, around in order to mix it thoroughly.
Swish the liquid around in your mouth before spitting it out.
Often appears as...
- swish the wine
- swish mouthwash
noun
A shot in basketball that goes through the basket without touching the rim or backboard.
He scored with a perfect swish.
Often appears as...
- perfect swish
- nothing but swish
Usage tips
Sporting
adjective
Evidencing or displaying wealth or status.
He arrived in a swish new car.
Often appears as...
- swish car
- swish apartment
Usage tips
Approving
verb
To move quickly, smoothly or with a swooshing sound.
The leaves were swishing in the wind.
Often appears as...
- swish the curtains
- swish through the air
noun
A swift Swooshing movement or sound.
I could hear the swish of her dress.
Often appears as...
- swish of skirts
- swish of the sea
adjective
Elegant, stylish or fashionable.
They stayed at a swish hotel in the city.
Often appears as...
- swish hotel
- swish restaurant
verb
To move something, such as a liquid, around in order to mix it thoroughly.
Swish the liquid around in your mouth before spitting it out.
Often appears as...
- swish the wine
- swish mouthwash
noun
A shot in basketball that goes through the basket without touching the rim or backboard.
He scored with a perfect swish.
Often appears as...
- perfect swish
- nothing but swish
Usage tips
Sporting
adjective
Evidencing or displaying wealth or status.
He arrived in a swish new car.
Often appears as...
- swish car
- swish apartment
Usage tips
Approving
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Pro Tip 1/3Action Sound
Use 'swish' to describe the sound made by fast, smooth movements, like something cutting the air.
The basketball player's swift movements made a swish.
Pro Tip 2/3Movement Emphasis
'Swish' emphasizes the gracefulness of movement, often with an element of speed involved.
The dancer's feet swished across the stage.
Pro Tip 3/3Onomatopoeic Usage
'Swish' is onomatopoeic, meaning it imitates the sound associated with the action it describes.
Her silk scarf swished as she turned her head quickly.
Pro Tip 1/3Action Sound
Use 'swish' to describe the sound made by fast, smooth movements, like something cutting the air.
The basketball player's swift movements made a swish.
Pro Tip 2/3Movement Emphasis
'Swish' emphasizes the gracefulness of movement, often with an element of speed involved.
The dancer's feet swished across the stage.
Pro Tip 3/3Onomatopoeic Usage
'Swish' is onomatopoeic, meaning it imitates the sound associated with the action it describes.
Her silk scarf swished as she turned her head quickly.
Pro Tip 1/3Action Sound
Use 'swish' to describe the sound made by fast, smooth movements, like something cutting the air.
The basketball player's swift movements made a swish.
Pro Tip 2/3Movement Emphasis
'Swish' emphasizes the gracefulness of movement, often with an element of speed involved.
The dancer's feet swished across the stage.
Pro Tip 3/3Onomatopoeic Usage
'Swish' is onomatopoeic, meaning it imitates the sound associated with the action it describes.
Her silk scarf swished as she turned her head quickly.
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Planet or Plastic? PIPE...
of research that I did was looking at washing our clothes and most of you sat here in the audience a day I'm sorry but you're wearing plastic this could be polyester acrylic or polyester cotton blend in the mechanical nature of the washing machine where our clothes are swishing and swirling around tiny fibers
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Meet The Adorable Red...
they also swish their tail in anger each other so we can always tell by watching one squirrel if another squirrels around by the way it just stares into the forest and sort of glares that they intruder coming in to steal its food they mark scent mark the trees with the
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Human sperm vs. the...
So, pushing past them with your gigantic body is easy, but if you were really small, say you were about the size of a water molecule, all of a sudden, it's like you're swimming in a pool of people. Rather than simply swishing by all the teeny, tiny molecules,
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Monster Fish of the...
doesn't diminish their numbers he says the best place for us to look is in the canals and the goons around the island to find the first species of mega fish on my list the best technique is listening these giants make a distinctive swishing sound in the water
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Safari Live - Day 174 PIPE...
wonder if the cheetah ate off we had another encounter with people we thought it was gonna be quite dangerous but it turned out ok I wonder if they do that as well now I'm taking all said and we have to lock all what I walk swish you really
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Financial inclusion, the...
In Sweden, essentially everybody uses electronic forms of payments, either a card or app on their phone that they can swish through or things of that nature, consumer payments I'm talking about. Even public toilets on the street in Sweden
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Slowing down time (in...
falling through the net with a gentle, satisfying swish. And the crowd exploded from their seats." See, we just slowed down time through our writing. The bottom line is there are moments in life that take longer than they actually take.
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"Meeting her for the...
just so in the tune clang clang clang clang the wipers on the bus go swish swish and who is this Lily knowing what it's done for Lily and how amazing and blessed we feel to have brought this plant into our lives and into our
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Safari Live - Day 7 PIPE...
now you'd see that tail swishing that's very common for the elephants to kind of keep tabs on where the other elephants are especially with the females with the
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Best Animal Escapes PIPE...
swishing her tail like that shows she's frustrated
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Planet or Plastic? PIPE...
of research that I did was looking at washing our clothes and most of you sat here in the audience a day I'm sorry but you're wearing plastic this could be polyester acrylic or polyester cotton blend in the mechanical nature of the washing machine where our clothes are swishing and swirling around tiny fibers
Video examples
Meet The Adorable Red...
they also swish their tail in anger each other so we can always tell by watching one squirrel if another squirrels around by the way it just stares into the forest and sort of glares that they intruder coming in to steal its food they mark scent mark the trees with the
Video examples
Human sperm vs. the...
So, pushing past them with your gigantic body is easy, but if you were really small, say you were about the size of a water molecule, all of a sudden, it's like you're swimming in a pool of people. Rather than simply swishing by all the teeny, tiny molecules,
Video examples
Monster Fish of the...
doesn't diminish their numbers he says the best place for us to look is in the canals and the goons around the island to find the first species of mega fish on my list the best technique is listening these giants make a distinctive swishing sound in the water
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Safari Live - Day 174 PIPE...
wonder if the cheetah ate off we had another encounter with people we thought it was gonna be quite dangerous but it turned out ok I wonder if they do that as well now I'm taking all said and we have to lock all what I walk swish you really
Video examples
Financial inclusion, the...
In Sweden, essentially everybody uses electronic forms of payments, either a card or app on their phone that they can swish through or things of that nature, consumer payments I'm talking about. Even public toilets on the street in Sweden
Video examples
Slowing down time (in...
falling through the net with a gentle, satisfying swish. And the crowd exploded from their seats." See, we just slowed down time through our writing. The bottom line is there are moments in life that take longer than they actually take.
Video examples
"Meeting her for the...
just so in the tune clang clang clang clang the wipers on the bus go swish swish and who is this Lily knowing what it's done for Lily and how amazing and blessed we feel to have brought this plant into our lives and into our
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Safari Live - Day 7 PIPE...
now you'd see that tail swishing that's very common for the elephants to kind of keep tabs on where the other elephants are especially with the females with the
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Best Animal Escapes PIPE...
swishing her tail like that shows she's frustrated
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Quote examples
Ellen Gallagher
American Artist
My work is on the one hand laboured, and on the other completely happenstance and intuitive. But that's the swish in the work, I think. It's really important to me that the work isn't just sitting on top of something, that the materials are woven together - that they are recognisable and from the world.
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Rumaan Alam
American Author
Is deciding what you like an instinct, a sense that arrives as swiftly as my autoimmune response to cat dander? Or is it the result of reasoned consideration, the way wine tasters swish pinot noir around in their mouths, spit it out, and reach for complex metaphors about chocolate and tobacco?
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Janet Mock
American Writer
Toughening up, performing masculinity, pretending to enjoy things I didn't enjoy all enabled me to dodge the gender policing of the adults around me. But the way I really was - the swished hips, the Double-Dutching, the hair flips - seemed to always prevail and attract Dad's disdain.
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Steve Rushin
American Journalist
Swish: A made basket. Swoosh: The Nike logo. Swish-swoosh, swish-swoosh, swish-swoosh: A thousand coaches in nylon tracksuits, walking through hotel lobbies at the Final Four.
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John Dickerson
American Journalist
The locker rooms that Donald Trump is in are not at the cut-rate gym with the broken treadmills - they are at his swish golf clubs. They are places of stature.
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Stephanie Ruhle
American Journalist
Since leaving DB, I have participated in many conferences and swish events that other financial institutions have held for their women's groups.
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Princess Anne
British Royalty
When I appear in public people expect me to neigh, grind my teeth, paw the ground and swish my tail - none of which is easy.
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Lady Amelia Windsor
English Model
There is nothing better than leaving a salon with freshly cut hair, swishing it about proudly all the way home.
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Ellen Gallagher
American Artist
My work is on the one hand laboured, and on the other completely happenstance and intuitive. But that's the swish in the work, I think. It's really important to me that the work isn't just sitting on top of something, that the materials are woven together - that they are recognisable and from the world.
Quote examples
Rumaan Alam
American Author
Is deciding what you like an instinct, a sense that arrives as swiftly as my autoimmune response to cat dander? Or is it the result of reasoned consideration, the way wine tasters swish pinot noir around in their mouths, spit it out, and reach for complex metaphors about chocolate and tobacco?
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Janet Mock
American Writer
Toughening up, performing masculinity, pretending to enjoy things I didn't enjoy all enabled me to dodge the gender policing of the adults around me. But the way I really was - the swished hips, the Double-Dutching, the hair flips - seemed to always prevail and attract Dad's disdain.
Quote examples
Steve Rushin
American Journalist
Swish: A made basket. Swoosh: The Nike logo. Swish-swoosh, swish-swoosh, swish-swoosh: A thousand coaches in nylon tracksuits, walking through hotel lobbies at the Final Four.
Quote examples
John Dickerson
American Journalist
The locker rooms that Donald Trump is in are not at the cut-rate gym with the broken treadmills - they are at his swish golf clubs. They are places of stature.
Quote examples
Stephanie Ruhle
American Journalist
Since leaving DB, I have participated in many conferences and swish events that other financial institutions have held for their women's groups.
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Princess Anne
British Royalty
When I appear in public people expect me to neigh, grind my teeth, paw the ground and swish my tail - none of which is easy.
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Lady Amelia Windsor
English Model
There is nothing better than leaving a salon with freshly cut hair, swishing it about proudly all the way home.
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