swash

noun

  1. 1

    The water that washes up on shore after an incoming wave has broken

  2. 2

    A long, protruding ornamental line or pen stroke found in some typefaces and styles of calligraphy.

  3. 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. 4

    Liquid filth; wash; hog mash.

  5. 5

    A blustering noise.

  6. 6

    Swaggering behaviour.

  7. 7

    A swaggering fellow; a swasher.

  8. 8

    An oval figure, whose mouldings are oblique to the axis of the work.

verb

  1. 1

    To swagger; to bluster and brag.

  2. 2

    To dash or flow noisily; to splash.

  3. 3

    To fall violently or noisily.

adjective

  1. 1

    Soft, like overripe fruit; swashy; squashy.

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