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Wishing vs Swishing - What's the difference?

wishing | swishing |

As verbs the difference between wishing and swishing

is that wishing is present participle of lang=en while swishing is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between wishing and swishing

is that wishing is the act of making a wish while swishing is the sound of fabric or fur moving in the air.

wishing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of making a wish.
  • * 1852 , Chambers's Papers for the People (volumes 9-10, page 167)
    • Discourse there was none; only exclamations and interjections, and wishings , wishings, wishings that Bessy were but his own for ever — his dear, dear little wife, as assuredly one day she should be!

    swishing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The sound of fabric or fur moving in the air.
  • The movement that produces such a sound.
  • A switching; a beating with twigs.