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swish
adjective- fashionable; elegant UK, 1879
Colloquial, from Devonshire dialect. - — Louis S. Leland, A Personal Kiwi-Yankee Dictionary, p. 99, 1984
- [K]ick-boxing classes at their swish health club. — Frank Skinner, Frank Skinner, p. 369, 2001
- blatantly homosexual US, 1941
Also variant “swishy”. - — Florida Legislative Investigation Committee (Johns Committee), Homosexuality and Citizenship in Florida, 1964: “Glossary of homosexual terms and deviate acts”
- Horace was a faggot, an out-and-out flaming faggot. He didn’t swish, but he was sort of like an old auntie. — Lenny Bruce, How to Talk Dirty and Influence People, p. 34, 1965
- Walking up and down the halls were perhaps a dozen other guys–some rather handsome, some miserable, but mostly just ordinary guys. None of them seemed swishy. — The Advocate, p. 5, March 1969
- The story involves only four characters: two lovers, their “swishy” neighbor, and an old “straight” friend who is a boyhood buddy of one of the lovers. — Screw, p. 20, 27 October 1969
- Expensive suits, or he’s got the shirt open all the way, the chains. Maybe just a little swishy. — Elmore Leonard, Glitz, p. 109, 1985
- “Well, I don’t know,” repeated Dad. “I don’t want any swishy characters hanging around.” “I’m not gay, Dad.” — C.D. Payne, Youth in Revolt, p. 123, 1993
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