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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

Scandinavian. Compare Swedish dialect svasska, Norwegian svakka, English dialect swack (“a blow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sw??/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

swash (countable and uncountable, plural swashes)

1. The water that washes up on shore after an incoming wave has broken
2. (typography) A long, protruding ornamental line or pen stroke found in some typefaces and styles of calligraphy.
3. 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.
4. (obsolete) Liquid filth; wash; hog mash.
5. (obsolete) A blustering noise.
6. (obsolete) swaggering behaviour.
7. (obsolete) A swaggering fellow; a swasher.
8. (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

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)

1. (intransitive) To swagger; to bluster and brag.
2. (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!

3. (intransitive) To fall violently or noisily.

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Translations

See also

• swashbuckler
• swash letter

Adjective

swash (comparative more swash, superlative most swash)

1. Soft, like overripe fruit; swashy; squashy.

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Anagrams

• Shaws, shaws, shwas