swish

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Moreover, he declares that the story of sacrificing girls to mix their blood with house-swish is a pure fabrication; the Ashantis would no longer dare to do anything so offensive to the conqueror Last on the list of solid Ashanti grievances is her exclusion from the seaboard.

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  1. intransitive verb To move with a hissing or whistling sound, as a whip.
  2. intransitive verb To rustle, as silk.
  3. transitive verb To cause to make a swishing sound.
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  • The hedge closed behind me with a prim swish, and I looked around. —  1
  • “Come back tomorrow.” He shifted something on the controls, and the low thrum of the engine rose to a shrill whine, while the blades sped up from a lazy swish-swish-swish to a deafening thwack-thwack-thwack. —  AnalogSFF,May2007
  • The water quite suddenly came very close—a swish, and then I began my final swim of the season. —  The Narrow Margin
  • With a gleeful swish, the hanging tentacles pounced. —  Ogre Ogre
  • She concentrated on the white noise of the morgue: the air compressor on the freezer, the swish-swish of the water hose as Carlos washed down the floor. —  Karin Slaughter - Blindsighted
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Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

rustle ·  whoosh ·  thud ·  whine ·  gurgle ·  rumble ·  splash ·  crackle ·  patter ·  hiss ·  creak ·  swirl

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swish:   swished
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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Imitative.

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  1. Imitative; cf. swash, switch.
  2. from swish, v.
  3. An elliptical use of swish, n.
 

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