Definition of "swish-swash" []

• A swishing action or sound; a swish. (noun)
• Slops; a wishy-washy beverage. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "And, in five minutes time, the six of them were out on the sea, Julian taking one oar, and Dick the other, "Swish-swash - swish-swash" went the oars, and the boat rocked as it sped along."
• "There is a kind of swish-swash made also in Essex, and divers other places, with honeycombs and water, which the homely country wives, putting some pepper and a little other spice among, call mead, very good in mine opinion for such as love to be loose bodied at large, or a little eased of the cough."
• "There is a kind of swish-swash made also in Essex, and divers other places, with honeycombhs and water, which the homely country wives, putting some pepper and a little other spice among, call mead, very good in mine opinion for such as love to be loose bodied at large, or a little eased of the cough."