Swishes vs Swisher - What's the difference?
swishes | swisher |
(swish)
(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.
(US, AAVE, slang) The wrapping paper of a cigar for use in making a blunt to smoke marijuana
* Taylor Goetz, 169 Pages Of My Life , page 112
(swish)
As a verb swishes
is (swish).As a noun swishes
is .As a proper noun swisher is
.swishes
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(head)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.
swisher
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Noun
(en noun)- They were rolling up a grape swisher blunt and we were telling them how we just got out.
- Look Tanya there's a liquor store! They got swishers blood?