different between swashy vs slashy

English

Adjective

swashy (comparative more swashy, superlative most swashy)

1. (informal) swashbuckling

   a swashy film adaptation of Robin Hood

2. (Britain, dialect) soft like overripe fruit

Related terms

• swash

English

Etymology

slash +? -y

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?slæ?i/
• Rhymes: -æ?i

Adjective

slashy (comparative slashier, superlative slashiest)

1. Involving lots of cutting with blades, or swordwork.
2. resembling a slash (the punctuation mark)
3. wet, having wet ground, slushy
4. making a movement akin to swiping a sword.
5. darting, running in a zigzag motion
6. of a work of art, done in the style that suggests the painter was slashing the canvas with a paintbrush
   • 2007, Julie Halpern, Get Well Soon page 88

     In the last hour we've managed to do ten [drawings] total (I did six in a more abstract, slashy style, and she did four, neatly and precisely). I've never really done any kind of art outside of school, except for writing.
7. slushy, very romantic
8. (fandom slang) Characteristic of or related to slash fiction.
   • 2001, Kelly Simca Boyd, "'One Index Finger On The Mouse Scroll And The Other On My Clit': Slash Writers' Views On Pornography, Censorship, Feminism and Risk", thesis submitted to Simon Fraser University, page 156:

     It was the first slashy story published after the threats to expose slash to the producers and actors in Starsky and Hutch.

   • 2013, Jacqueline Lichtenberg, "Recollections of a Collating Party", in Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World (ed. Anne Jamison), page 92:

     One amazing claim to fame, though, is that very soon after this collating party at my house, Roberta published her slashy/raunchy stories in a fanzine that was called, I think, GRIP (a sendup of zines Grope and Grup) […]

   • 2014, Kathryn Hill, "'Easy to Associate Angsty Lyrics with Buffy': An Introduction to a Participatory Fan Culture: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Vidders, Popular Music and the Internet", in Buffy and Angel Conquer the Internet: Essays on Online Fandom (ed. Mary Kirby-Diaz), page 182:

     As this vidder's website modestly states: "I think of this vid as my proof of how slashy these shows are. […]

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:slashy.

Anagrams

• hassly