Swash vs Swish - What's the difference?
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The water that washes up on shore after an incoming wave has broken
(typography) a long, protruding ornamental line or pen stroke found in some typefaces and styles of calligraphy.
A narrow sound or channel of water lying within a sand bank, or between a sand bank and the shore, or a bar over which the sea washes.
(obsolete) Liquid filth; wash; hog mash.
(obsolete) A blustering noise.
(obsolete) swaggering behaviour.
(obsolete) A swaggering fellow; a swasher.
(architecture) An oval figure, whose mouldings are oblique to the axis of the work.
To swagger; to bluster and brag.
To dash or flow noisily; to splash.
*1851 ,
To fall violently or noisily.
(British, colloquial) sophisticated; fashionable; smooth.
Attractive, stylish
* 2014 , , "
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 nouns the difference between swash and swish
is that swash is the water that washes up on shore after an incoming wave has broken while swish is a short rustling, hissing or whistling sound, often made by friction.As verbs the difference between swash and swish
is that swash is to swagger; to bluster and brag while swish is to make a rustling sound while moving.As adjectives the difference between swash and swish
is that swash is soft, like overripe fruit; swashy; squashy while swish is sophisticated; fashionable; smooth.swash
English
Noun
- (Moxon)
Verb
(es)- How the sea rolls swashing ‘gainst the side! Stand by for reefing, hearties!
- (Holinshed)
See also
* swashbuckler * swash letterAnagrams
*swish
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.
