SWASH

swash

(noun) the movement or sound of water; “the swash of waves on the beach”

swagger, bluster, swash

(verb) act in an arrogant, overly self-assured, or conceited manner

boast, tout, swash, shoot a line, brag, gas, blow, bluster, vaunt, gasconade

(verb) show off

spatter, splatter, plash, splash, splosh, swash

(verb) dash a liquid upon or against; “The mother splashed the baby’s face with water”

swash

(verb) make violent, noisy movements

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

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.

Verb

swash (third-person singular simple present swashes, present participle swashing, simple past and past participle swashed)

(intransitive) To swagger; to bluster and brag.

(ambitransitive) To dash or flow noisily; to splash.

(intransitive) To fall violently or noisily.

Adjective

swash (comparative more swash, superlative most swash)

Soft, like overripe fruit; swashy; squashy.

Anagrams

• shaws, shwas

Source: Wiktionary

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Swash, n. Etym: [Cf. Swash, v. i., Squash, v. t.] (Arch.)

Definition: An oval figure, whose moldings are oblique to the axis of the work. Moxon. Swash plate (Mach.), a revolving circular plate, set obliquely on its shaft, and acting as a cam to give a reciprocating motion to a rod in a direction parallel to the shaft.

Swash, a. Etym: [Cf. Swash, v. i., Squash, v. t.]

Definition: Soft, like fruit too ripe; swashy. [Prov. Eng.] Pegge.

Swash, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Swashed; p. pr. & vb. n. Swashing.] Etym: [Probably of imitative origin; cf. Sw. svasska to splash, and, for sense 3, Sw. svassa to bully, to rodomontade.]

1. To dash or flow noisily, as water; to splash; as, water swashing on a shallow place.

2. To fall violently or noisily. [Obs.] Holinshed.

3. To bluster; to make a great noise; to vapor or brag.

Swash, n.

1. Impulse of water flowing with violence; a dashing or splashing of water.

2. 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.

3. Liquid filth; wash; hog mash. [Obs.]

4. A blustering noise; a swaggering behavior. [Obs.]

5. A swaggering fellow; a swasher.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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