2. Noun. The sound of fabric or fur moving in the air. ¹
3. Noun. The movement that produces such a sound. ¹
4. Noun. A switching; a beating with twigs. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Swishing
1. swish [v] - See also: swish
Lexicographical Neighbors of Swishing
Literary usage of Swishing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The National Sports of Great Britain: Fifty Engravings with Descriptionsby Henry Thomas Alken by Henry Thomas Alken (1903)
"... swishing AT A RASPER WE apprehend this phrase — swishing at a Rasper — to be
provincial, and peculiar to a few counties, as in some, we have found it ..."
2. Memories of Eton and Etonians: Including My Life at Eton, 1854-1863, and by Alfred Lubbock, Robin. Lubbock (1899)
"... I. My first day at Eton—Passage football—" My tutor"—Entrance examination and
its results—First Form—" swishing " in Lower School—" The ..."
3. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"To affect by swishing: as, to swish off the heads of flowers with a cane. Ц.
intrans. ... In a swishing manner, or with a swishing sound ; with a swish. ..."
4. The English Illustrated Magazine (1896)
"This signalling was interrupted by the sound of a body being dragged or dragging
itself with slow swishing sound under the barn. ..."
5. The National Sports of Great Britain: Fifty Engravings with Descriptionsby Henry Thomas Alken by Henry Thomas Alken (1903)
"... swishing AT A RASPER WE apprehend this phrase — swishing at a Rasper — to be
provincial, and peculiar to a few counties, as in some, we have found it ..."
6. Memories of Eton and Etonians: Including My Life at Eton, 1854-1863, and by Alfred Lubbock, Robin. Lubbock (1899)
"... I. My first day at Eton—Passage football—" My tutor"—Entrance examination and
its results—First Form—" swishing " in Lower School—" The ..."
7. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"To affect by swishing: as, to swish off the heads of flowers with a cane. Ц.
intrans. ... In a swishing manner, or with a swishing sound ; with a swish. ..."
8. The English Illustrated Magazine (1896)
"This signalling was interrupted by the sound of a body being dragged or dragging
itself with slow swishing sound under the barn. ..."
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