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Swish vs Swith - What's the difference?

swish | swith |

As adjectives the difference between swish and swith

is that swish is (british|colloquial) sophisticated; fashionable; smooth while swith is (dialectal|or|obsolete) strong; vehement.

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.

As an adverb swith is

(dialectal|or|obsolete) quickly, speedily, promptly.

swish

English

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • (British, colloquial) sophisticated; fashionable; smooth.
    • This restaurant looks very swish — it even has linen tablecloths.
  • Attractive, stylish
  • * 2014 , , " 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.
  • effeminate.

    • Noun

    (es)
  • 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.

    • Related terms

    * swoosh * whoosh

    Verb

    (es)
  • To make a rustling sound while moving.
    • The cane swishes .
  • To flourish with a swishing sound.
    • to swish a cane back and forth
    (Coleridge)
  • (transitive, slang, dated) To flog; to lash.
    • (Thackeray)
  • (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.
    • I shall not swish ; I'll merely act limp-wristed.

    swith

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . Related to (l).

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (dialectal, or, obsolete) Strong; vehement.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) . Not cognate to superficially similar (m), as these have distinct PIE roots, though both share *swe- prefix in PIE.

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Adverb

    (er)
  • (dialectal, or, obsolete) Quickly, speedily, promptly.
  • (dialectal, or, obsolete) Strongly; vehemently; very.