swish

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• intransitive verb To move with a hissing or whistling sound.
• intransitive verb To rustle, as silk.
• intransitive verb To cause to move with a swishing sound.
• intransitive verb To swirl or agitate (a liquid) in a glass or in the mouth with a swishing sound.
• intransitive verb To whip with a rod.
• noun A sharp whistling or rustling sound.
• noun A movement making such a sound.
• noun Basketball A shot that goes through the net of the basket without hitting the backboard or rim.
• noun A rod used for flogging.
• noun Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a gay man.
• adjective Chiefly British Fashionable; posh.
• adjective Offensive Slang Effeminate.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A sound as of water lapping the shore, or of swift movement through the air; a rustling.
• noun A swish-broom.
• To flog; lash.
• To flourish; brandish; make quick, cutting motions with; switch.
• To affect by swishing: as, to swish off the heads of flowers with a cane.
• To move, or make a movement, with a swash or flourish, or with a sound like the washing of small waves on the shore, or of swift movement through the air, of which the word swish is imitative.
• In a swishing manner, or with a swishing sound; with a swish.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• intransitive verb To dash; to swash.
• transitive verb To flourish, so as to make the sound swish.
• transitive verb Slang To flog; to lash.
• noun colloq. A sound of quick movement, as of something whirled through the air.
• noun (Naut.), engraving Light driven spray.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• adjective UK, colloquial sophisticated; fashionable; smooth.
• adjective effeminate.
• noun A short rustling, hissing or whistling sound, often made by friction.
• noun A sound of liquid flowing inside a container.
• noun A movement of an animal's tail
• noun A twig or bundle of twigs, used for administering beatings; a switch
• noun basketball A successful basketball shot that does not touch the rim or backboard.
• noun An effeminate male homosexual.
• verb To make a rustling sound while moving.
• verb basketball To make a shot, as a perfect swish.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb move with or cause to move with a whistling or hissing sound
• noun a brushing or rustling sound
• adjective elegant and fashionable