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swash
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NounPlural: swashes |
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| swash - the movement or sound of water; "the swash of waves on the beach" | ||
| moving ridge, wave a movement like that of a sudden occurrence or increase in a specified phenomenon; "a wave of settlers"; "troops advancing in waves" | ||
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| swash - make violent, noisy movements | ||
| locomote, travel, move, go change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically; "How fast does your new car go?"; "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"; "The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect"; "The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell"; "news travelled fast" | ||
| swash - show off | ||
| boast, tout, shoot a line, brag, gas, blow, bluster, vaunt, gasconade | ||
| hyperbolise, hyperbolize, overstate, exaggerate, overdraw, magnify, amplify to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth; "tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery" | ||
| puff blow hard and loudly; "he huffed and puffed as he made his way up the mountain" | ||
| gloat, crow, triumph dwell on with satisfaction | ||
| swash - dash a liquid upon or against; "The mother splashed the baby's face with water" | ||
| spatter, splatter, plash, splash, splosh | ||
| dot, dust, sprinkle, disperse, scatter mark with a dot; "dot your `i's" | ||
| puddle make a puddle by splashing water | ||
| slosh around, slush around, slush, slosh spill or splash copiously or clumsily; "slosh paint all over the walls" | ||
| swash - act in an arrogant, overly self-assured, or conceited manner | ||
| swagger, bluster | ||
| behave, act, do behave in a certain manner; "She carried herself well"; "he bore himself with dignity"; "They conducted themselves well during these difficult times" | ||
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Wiktionary 
- swash (Noun)
The water that washes up on shore after an incoming wave has broken. - swash (Noun)
A long, protruding ornamental line or pen stroke found in some typefaces and styles of calligraphy. - swash (Noun)
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. - swash (Noun)
Liquid filth; wash; hog mash. - swash (Noun)
A blustering noise. - swash (Noun)
swaggering behaviour. - swash (Noun)
A swaggering fellow; a swasher. - swash (Verb)
To swagger. - swash (Verb)
To splash. - swash (Adjective)
Soft, like overripe fruit; swashy; squashy.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- swash (v. t.)
An oval figure, whose moldings are oblique to the axis of the work. - swash (v. t.)
Soft, like fruit too ripe; swashy. - swash (v. i.)
To dash or flow noisily, as water; to splash; as, water swashing on a shallow place. - swash (v. i.)
To fall violently or noisily. - swash (v. i.)
To bluster; to make a great noise; to vapor or brag. - swash (n.)
Impulse of water flowing with violence; a dashing or splashing of water. - swash (n.)
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. - swash (n.)
Liquid filth; wash; hog mash. - swash (n.)
A blustering noise; a swaggering behavior. - swash (n.)
A swaggering fellow; a swasher.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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swash
To show off.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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swash
swosh, v.t. to dash or splash.—v.i. to make a splashing noise, to wash up against.—ns. Swash′-buck′ler, a bully, a blusterer; Swash′er (Shak.), one who swashes, a blusterer.—adj. Swash′ing, slashing, crushing.—n.pl. Swash′-lett′ers, Italic capitals with top and bottom flourishes, intended to fill out ugly gaps.—ns. Swash′-plate, a disc set obliquely on a revolving axis, to give a reciprocating motion to a bar along its length; Swash′-work, lathe-work in which the cuts are inclined to the axis of rotation.—adj. Swash′y, swaggering. [Scand.; cf. dial. Sw. svasska, Norw. svakka, prov. Eng. swack, a blow.]
Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book ⛵
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swash
A sudden surge of the sea. Also, a shoal in a tide-way or mouth of a river, over which the water flows, and the tide ripples in ebbing or flowing.
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