Definition of "swish"

All the shabby railway buildings in front of the station concourse have either been removed or transformed into a shopping complex and swish homes.

2020 June 3, Howard Johnston, “Regional News: Cambridge”, in Rail, page 23

When the boys go swish, they always score

2004, “Ladyflash”, in Thunder, Lightning, Strike, performed by The Go! Team

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.

2014 October 18, Paul Doyle, “Southampton hammer eight past hapless Sunderland in barmy encounter”, in The Guardian

As she trotted down the white path, each swish of her tail sent petals dancing through the air, falling where the bride would walk.

2011, A. C. August, The Highway Cross, page 116

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.

1898, J. Meade Falkner, chapter 4, in Moonfleet, London, Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934

"Fairies, nances, swishes, fags, lezzes — call 'em what you please — should of course be permitted to earn honest livings […]

1992, Leigh W. Rutledge, The gay decades: from Stonewall to the present

In the stern of the low-laden canoe his paddle swished steadily and powerfully, with thrust of straight, stiff upper arm backed by a twisting swing of the body from the waist, and with every stroke the little craft leaped as if a giant hand had shoved her forward.

1922, A. M. Chisholm, A Thousand a Plate

And backward and forward he swish'd his long tail / As a gentleman swishes his cane.

1829 , Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey, “The Devil's Thoughts”, in The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats, Paris: A. and W. Galignani, page 239

After Virginia came the twins, who were usually called "the Star and Stripes", as they were always getting swished.

1906, Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

Doctor Wordsworth and assistants would swish that error out of him in a way that need not here be mentioned.

c. 1842, William Makepeace Thackeray, Character Sketches

"Just like parade it had been a minute before then stumble, bang, swish! Wiped out!" he said.

1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 84