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Definition of Swosh
1. Verb. Move with or cause to move with a whistling or hissing sound. "The curtain swooshed open"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Swosh
Literary usage of Swosh
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"Swash-bank (swosh'bangk), я. The crowning part of a sea-embankment. EH Knight.
swash-bucket (swosh'buk'et), «. The common hence, a mean, slatternly woman. ..."
2. The Verbalist: A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and Wrong by Alfred Ayres (1882)
"... when in fact it is not only the veriest swosh, but that kind of swosh that
excites at least an occasional doubt with regard to the writer's sanity. ..."
3. The Verbalist: A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the by Alfred Ayres (1881)
"... swosh. There is a kind of ill-balanced brain in which the reflective and the
imaginative very much outweight the perceptive. ..."
4. The Verbalist: A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the by Alfred Ayres (1881)
"... when in fact it is not only the veriest swosh, but that kind of swosh that
excites at least an occasional doubt with regard to the writer's sanity. ..."
5. Woods and Lakes of Maine: A Trip from Moosehead Lake to New Brunswick in a by Lucius Lee Hubbard (1884)
"... and as we paused now and then in the midst of some difficult " pitch," out of
the greater din and roar came a, solemn monotone, " swosh, swosh', ..."
6. A Comprehensive Pronouncing and Explanatory Dictionary of the English by Joseph Emerson Worcester (1831)
"Su-ji rhv, a. dark of complexion ; black ; taw- Swart'ness, n. darkness of color ;
duskiness. Swash, (swosh) n. a violent impulse of water. ..."
7. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson (1828)
"Soft, like fruit too SWASHY, (swosh'-e) ) ripe. SWASHBUCKLER, (swosh'-buk-ler) n.
», A kind of sword-player ; a braggadocio ..."
8. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"Swash-bank (swosh'bangk), я. The crowning part of a sea-embankment. EH Knight.
swash-bucket (swosh'buk'et), «. The common hence, a mean, slatternly woman. ..."
9. The Verbalist: A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and Wrong by Alfred Ayres (1882)
"... when in fact it is not only the veriest swosh, but that kind of swosh that
excites at least an occasional doubt with regard to the writer's sanity. ..."
10. The Verbalist: A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the by Alfred Ayres (1881)
"... swosh. There is a kind of ill-balanced brain in which the reflective and the
imaginative very much outweight the perceptive. ..."
11. The Verbalist: A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the by Alfred Ayres (1881)
"... when in fact it is not only the veriest swosh, but that kind of swosh that
excites at least an occasional doubt with regard to the writer's sanity. ..."
12. Woods and Lakes of Maine: A Trip from Moosehead Lake to New Brunswick in a by Lucius Lee Hubbard (1884)
"... and as we paused now and then in the midst of some difficult " pitch," out of
the greater din and roar came a, solemn monotone, " swosh, swosh', ..."
13. A Comprehensive Pronouncing and Explanatory Dictionary of the English by Joseph Emerson Worcester (1831)
"Su-ji rhv, a. dark of complexion ; black ; taw- Swart'ness, n. darkness of color ;
duskiness. Swash, (swosh) n. a violent impulse of water. ..."
14. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson (1828)
"Soft, like fruit too SWASHY, (swosh'-e) ) ripe. SWASHBUCKLER, (swosh'-buk-ler) n.
», A kind of sword-player ; a braggadocio ..."
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