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swisher

swisher is the comparative form of swish.

Noun (1)

swisher (plural swishers)

  1. One who swishes something.
    • Identical boy twins […] become the elephant tail swishers at the king's court, while identical girl twins become potential royal wives.1998, Robert B. Fisher, West African religious traditions: focus on the Akan of Ghana, page 86
  2. (archaic) One who flogs or thrashes.

Meaning of swish

Adjective

swish (comparative swisher or more swish, superlative swishest or most swish)

  1. (UK, colloquial) sophisticated; fashionable; smooth.
    • This restaurant looks very swish — it even has linen tablecloths.
  2. Attractive, stylish
    • When the boys go swish, they always score2004, “Ladyflash”, in Thunder, Lightning, Strike, performed by The Go! Team
  3. Effeminate.

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Noun (2)

swisher (plural swishers)

  1. (US, slang, African-American Vernacular) The wrapping paper of a cigar for use in making a blunt to smoke marijuana.
    • They were rolling up a grape swisher blunt and we were telling them how we just got out.2011, Taylor Goetz, 169 Pages Of My Life, page 112
    • 'Amp' and 'fry' are joints or swishers that have been dipped in embalming fluid laced with PCP and then frozen prior to smoking.1994, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Epidemiologic trends in drug abuse, volume 1, page 45

Proper noun capitalized: Swisher

Swisher (countable and uncountable, plural Swishers)

  1. A surname from German.
  2. A city in Johnson County, Iowa, United States.

Forms of swisher

Noun
pluralswishers
Proper noun
pluralSwishers

Origin of swisher

From swish + -er.

From Swisher International Group, a cigar manufacturer.

Americanized form of German Schweitzer.

Words formed from swisher

Words that rhyme with swisher

Questions about swisher

What does swisher mean?
Swisher means one who swishes something.
What is swisher the comparative form of?
Swisher is the comparative form of swish.
What part of speech is swisher?
Swisher can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of swisher?
The plural of swisher is swishers.

Words near swisher in the dictionary

  1. swish-swash
  2. swish-swashed
  3. swish-swashes
  4. swish-swashing
  5. swished
  6. swisher
  7. Swisher County
  8. swishers
  9. swishes
  10. swishest
  11. swishier

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