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swash
English
Etymology
Scandinavian. Compare Swedish dialect svasska, Norwegian svakka, English dialect swack (“a blow”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sw??/
- Rhymes: -??
Noun
swash (countable and uncountable, plural swashes)
- The water that washes up on shore after an incoming wave has broken
- (typography) A long, protruding ornamental line or pen stroke found in some typefaces and styles of calligraphy.
- A narrow sound or channel of water lying within a sand bank, or between a sand bank and the shore, or a bar over which the sea washes.
- (obsolete) Liquid filth; wash; hog mash.
- (obsolete) A blustering noise.
- (obsolete) swaggering behaviour.
- (obsolete) A swaggering fellow; a swasher.
- (architecture) An oval figure, whose mouldings are oblique to the axis of the work.
- 1683, Joseph Moxon, Mechanick Exercises
- have the Upper Sholder of that Swash Sculped down straight, viz. to a Right Angle
- 1683, Joseph Moxon, Mechanick Exercises
References
- swash in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Translations
Verb
swash (third-person singular simple present swashes, present participle swashing, simple past and past participle swashed)
- (intransitive) To swagger; to bluster and brag.
- (transitive, intransitive) To dash or flow noisily; to splash.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 40
- How the sea rolls swashing ‘gainst the side! Stand by for reefing, hearties!
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 40
- (intransitive) To fall violently or noisily.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Holinshed to this entry?)
Translations
See also
- swashbuckler
- swash letter
Adjective
swash (comparative more swash, superlative most swash)
- Soft, like overripe fruit; swashy; squashy.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Pegge to this entry?)
Anagrams
- Shaws, shaws, shwas
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snash
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /snæ?/, [sna?]
- (US) IPA(key): /snæ?/
- Rhymes: -æ?
Noun
snash (uncountable)
- (Scotland) Verbal abuse; insolence; guff.
Verb
snash (third-person singular simple present snashes, present participle snashing, simple past and past participle snashed)
- (Scotland) To talk impudently.
Anagrams
- Shans
Scots
Noun
snash (uncountable)
- Verbal abuse, guff
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