aswish
adjEtymology From a- + swish.
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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:
2 more examples
- […] 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: