swish

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To move with a hissing or whistling sound, as a whip.
2. v. To rustle, as silk.
3. v. To cause to make a swishing sound.
4. v. To strike or cut with a swishing sound.
5. v. To whip with a rod.
6. n. A sharp whistling or rustling sound: the swish of scythes.
7. n. A movement making such a sound.
8. n. A rod used for flogging.
9. n. A stroke made with such a rod.
10. n. Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a homosexual man.
11. adj. Informal Fashionable; posh: "a swish pastry shop on the Rue du Bac” ( Julia Child).
12. adj. Slang Effeminate.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To flog; lash.
2. To flourish; brandish; make quick, cutting motions with; switch.
3. To affect by swishing: as, to swish off the heads of flowers with a cane.
4. To move, or make a movement, with a swash or flourish, or with a sound like the washing of small waves on the shore, or of swift movement through the air, of which the word swish is imitative.
5. n. A sound as of water lapping the shore, or of swift movement through the air; a rustling.
6. n. A swish-broom.
7. In a swishing manner, or with a swishing sound; with a swish.

Wiktionary

1. adj. UK, colloquial sophisticated; fashionable; smooth.
2. adj. effeminate.
3. n. A short rustling, hissing or whistling sound, often made by friction.
4. n. A sound of liquid flowing inside a container.
5. n. A movement of an animal's tail
6. n. A twig or bundle of twigs, used for administering beatings; a switch
7. n. basketball A successful basketball shot that does not touch the rim or backboard.
8. n. An effeminate male homosexual.
9. v. To make a rustling sound while moving.
10. v. basketball To make a shot, as a perfect swish.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To flourish, so as to make the sound swish.
2. v. Slang To flog; to lash.
3. v. To dash; to swash.
4. n. colloq. A sound of quick movement, as of something whirled through the air.
5. n. (Naut.), engraving Light driven spray.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. move with or cause to move with a whistling or hissing sound
2. n. a brushing or rustling sound
3. adj. elegant and fashionable