| 单词 |
swish-swash |
| 释义 |
swish-swash, n. (adv.)|ˈswɪʃˌswɒʃ|
Also 6 swyshe swashe.
[Reduplicated f. swish with alternating vowel.]
1. An inferior or wishy-washy drink. Also attrib.
1547Boorde Introd. Knowl. ii. (1870) 126 Swyshe swashe metheglyn I take for my fees. 1577Harrison England iii. i. 96/2 in Holinshed, There is a kind of swish swash made also in Essex,..wyth Hony and water, which the countrey wiues putting some pepper & a little other spyce among, call meade. 1881J. Sargisson Joe Scoap's Jurneh 49 It was sad swish-swash stuff, an nut hoaf boilt. 1884S. Dowell Taxation England IV. 55 The small sour swish-swash of the poorer vintages of France.
†2. A violent or swaggering person. Also attrib. Cf. swashbuckler. Obs.
1582Stanyhurst æneis iii. (Arb.) 92 Vp to the sky reatching, thee breetherne swish swash of ætna. 1593G. Harvey Pierce's Super. Ff iv b, Quiet thy rage, Imperious Swish-swash.
B. adv. expressing alternation or repetition of a swishing movement.
1865G. Macdonald Alec Forbes 29 And still the instrument of torture went swish-swash round his little thin legs. 1913M. Roberts Salt of Sea xix. 461 The sea had a motion in it, up and down, swish-swash. |
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