aswish

aswish

English

Etymology

a- +‎ swish

Adjective

aswish (not comparable)

1. Swishing, making a rustling sound while moving.
   • 1922, Walter de la Mare, “The Stranger” in Down-Adown-Derry, London: Constable, p. 20,

     […] some brisk little flickering fish […] / set the ripples a-swish

   • 1961, Janet Frame, Faces in the Water, New York: George Braziller, 1982, Part 1, Chapter 8, p. 61,

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

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

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

   • 2003, Kerri Sakamoto, One Hundred Million Hearts, Toronto: Knopf Canada, Chapter 10, p. 200,

     […] 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.