Groovy vs Swish - What's the difference?
groovy | swish |
Of, pertaining to, or having grooves.
(dated) Set in one's ways.
* (Rudyard Kipling)
(dated, slang) Cool, neat, interesting, fashionable.
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(British, colloquial) sophisticated; fashionable; smooth.
Attractive, stylish
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effeminate.
A short rustling, hissing or whistling sound, often made by friction.
A sound of liquid flowing inside a container.
*1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
*:There were four or five men in the vault already, and I could hear more coming down the passage, and guessed from their heavy footsteps that they were carrying burdens. There was a sound, too, of dumping kegs down on the ground, with a swish of liquor inside them, and then the noise of casks being moved.
A movement of an animal's tail
A twig or bundle of twigs, used for administering beatings; a switch
(basketball) A successful basketball shot that does not touch the rim or backboard.
An effeminate male homosexual.
To make a rustling sound while moving.
To flourish with a swishing sound.
(transitive, slang, dated) To flog; to lash.
(basketball) To make a successful basketball shot that does not touch the rim or backboard.
(gay slang) To mince or otherwise to behave in an effeminate manner.
As adjectives the difference between groovy and swish
is that groovy is of, pertaining to, or having grooves or groovy can be (dated|slang) cool, neat, interesting, fashionable while swish is (british|colloquial) sophisticated; fashionable; smooth.As a noun swish is
a short rustling, hissing or whistling sound, often made by friction.As a verb swish is
to make a rustling sound while moving.groovy
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Alternative forms
* grooveyEtymology 1
Adjective
(er)- The back of the tile was groovy so that it could hold the adhesive compound.
- She'd give anything to be able to believe it, but she's a hard woman, and brooding along certain lines makes one groovy .
Etymology 2
From the phrase in the groove , ultimately from the grooves of an early phonograph record.Adjective
(er)- "Wow, man! This psychedelic wallpaper is totally groovy ! " said the hippie.
- "Have a groovy day, dudes. " said the surfer in his latest movie.
- ''Marching around the hallways of school while making a racket, the drummer in the marching band said, "60s music is very groovy! "
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Derived terms
* groovinessReferences
* OED 2nd edition 1989swish
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- This restaurant looks very swish — it even has linen tablecloths.
Southampton hammer eight past hapless Sunderland in barmy encounter", The Guardian , 18 October 2014:
- The Saints, who started the day third in the table, went marching on thanks to their own swish play and some staggering defending by the visitors.
Noun
(es)Verb
(es)- The cane swishes .
- to swish a cane back and forth
- (Coleridge)
- (Thackeray)
- I shall not swish ; I'll merely act limp-wristed.