Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Producing a swishing sound.
- adjective Offensive Slang Effeminate.
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- adjective
Producing aswishing sound. - adjective UK
Swish ; fancy, posh, impressive.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective resembling a sustained `sh' or soft whistle
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Examples
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"Here's a freaky dead animal necklace, and for the love of all that's holy, stay away from crazy British men in swishy coats."
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They enforced a code of silence about sex and attacked the “swishy type of homosexual who brought contempt and derision on the majority of homosexuals.”
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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Unless you are a swishy fashion designer, they are gonna get it.
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Orenstein cites stats that put Disney's haul for those swishy pink bits of polyester froth at over $4 billion in past years.
Deborah Stambler: Cinderella Ate My Daughter (& Where I Found My Girls) Deborah Stambler 2012
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The film centers around twelve year-old Maxi, a swishy boy whose preferences for girlish clothes, romantic movies and Miss Universe pageant reenactments makes him a target for teasing in his ghetto neighborhood.
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The most mind-boggling thing about Brüno is although he's founded on the basest gay stereotype possible (the swishy wisp of a man who craves fashion, fame and sex), he gives everyone he encounters reasons to hate him way beyond his gayness.
fourfour: 2009
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Orenstein cites stats that put Disney's haul for those swishy pink bits of polyester froth at over $4 billion in past years.
Deborah Stambler: Cinderella Ate My Daughter (& Where I Found My Girls) Deborah Stambler 2012
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Martin Ramin for The Wall Street Journal, Styling by Anne Cardenas Pasties reinterpreted into swishy emerald tassel earrings by Eddie Borgo. $320, neimanmarcus.com
Bombshell Squad 2011
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Orenstein cites stats that put Disney's haul for those swishy pink bits of polyester froth at over $4 billion in past years.
Deborah Stambler: Cinderella Ate My Daughter (& Where I Found My Girls) Deborah Stambler 2012
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The lines aren't there for their own sake, but for their relationship to something in the real world: a number of actual creatures, a route of actual migration of actual creatures, an area of concentration of scaly, cold, swishy bodies.
atlas(t) clairelight 2009
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