a. [f. SWISH sb. or v. + -Y.] Characterized by swishing.
1828. C. J. Mathews, in Dickens, Life (1879), I. x. 308. A young foal ambling after her aged mother, and now and then seizing her by her swishy tail.
1875. Miss Cobbe, False Beasts & True, 71. The cowled and tonsured head of a mon, the tail of a fish, and two little fishy, swishy arms.
1890. Jessopp, Trials Country Parson, ii. 68. Our brooms are so new, so swishy, and our arms so strong.
