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aswish

aswish adjective: swishing, making a rustling sound while moving.

Adjective

aswish (not comparable)

  1. Swishing, making a rustling sound while moving.
    • […] some brisk little flickering fish […] / set the ripples a-swish1922, Walter de la Mare, “The Stranger”, in Down-Adown-Derry,, London: Constable, page 20
    • […] the cows, tails aswish, clustering already for milking1961, Janet Frame, Faces in the Water, New York: George Braziller, published 1982, Part 1, Chapter 8, p. 61

Examples of aswish in a sentence

  • […] 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 of aswish

From a- + swish.

Questions about aswish

What does aswish mean?
Aswish means swishing, making a rustling sound while moving.
How do you use aswish in a sentence?
[…] there were bungalows set back from blackened garden walls, the air around them aswish with coconut trees.
What part of speech is aswish?
Aswish is an adjective.

Words near aswish in the dictionary

  1. aswell as
  2. Aswells
  3. aswim
  4. aswing
  5. aswirl
  6. aswish
  7. aswoon
  8. ASX
  9. Asya
  10. asyla
  11. asylee

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