aswish

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adjective

Swishing, making a rustling sound while moving.

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Meanings

adjectiveaswish (not comparable)
  1. not comparableSwishing, making a rustling sound while moving.

    […] the cows, tails aswish, clustering already for milking

    1961, Janet Frame, Faces in the Water, New York: George Braziller, published 1982, Part 1, Chapter 8, p. 61
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    […] some brisk little flickering fish […] / set the ripples a-swish

    1922, Walter de la Mare, “The Stranger”, in Down-Adown-Derry,, London: Constable, page 20

    […] there were bungalows set back from blackened garden walls, the air around them aswish with coconut trees.

    1994, Kirin Narayan, Love, Stars, and All That, New York: Washington Square Press, Part 2, Chapter 6, p. 230

    […] he stumbled into the bedroom and delved into the closet, swimming past the hems of the skirts and dresses aswish in plastic, to the spot behind the line of never-worn shoes.

    2003, Kerri Sakamoto, chapter 10, in One Hundred Million Hearts, Toronto: Knopf Canada, page 200

Origin

From a- + swish.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

siwash
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APA

aswish. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/aswish

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Chicago

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