swishverb [ I or T ]
uk/swɪʃ/us/swɪʃ/to (cause to) move quickly through the air making a soft sound:
I heard the rope swish through the air.
The horses swished their tails to get rid of the flies hovering around them.
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Movement through the air
- airborne
- flight
- flit
- float
- flown
- fly
- glide
- levitate
- lift
- skim
- skip
- soar
- swishy
- swoop
- track
- waft
- wheel
- wing
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Sounds made by objects, movement or impact
swishadjective
uk/swɪʃ/us/swɪʃ/UK informal old-fashionedfashionable or expensive:
a swish hotel
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Expensive & luxurious
- costly
- delicacy
- deluxe
- exclusive
- executive
- expense
- expensive
- grand
- grandly
- lush
- luxurious
- no expense is spared idiom
- opulent
- plush
- premium-rate
- priceless
- richly
- sumptuous
- tony
- unaffordable
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swishnoun [ C ]
uk/swɪʃ/us/swɪʃ/swish noun [ C ] (MOVEMENT)
a quick movement through the air, making a soft sound:
With a swish of the curtains, the stage was revealed.
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Sounds made by objects, movement or impact
- chime
- clash
- crackling
- ding
- ding-a-ling
- ding-dong
- fizz
- hoot
- knock
- pip
- rasp
- ringer
- rumbling
- sing
- slam
- thud
- ting
- twang
- whine
- whistle
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