Meaning of SWASH
| Pronunciation: | | swâsh
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- [n] the movement or sound of water; "the swash of waves on the beach"
- [v] act in an arrogant, overly self-assured, or conceited manner
- [v] show off
- [v] dash a liquid upon or against; "The mother splashed the baby's face with water"
- [v] make violent, noisy movements
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| | Synonyms: | | blow, bluster, bluster, boast, brag, gas, gasconade, plash, shoot a line, spatter, splash, splatter, splosh, swagger, tout, vaunt |
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| | See Also: | | act, amplify, behave, crow, disperse, do, dot, dust, exaggerate, gloat, go, hyerbolise, hyperbolize, locomote, magnify, move, moving ridge, overdraw, overstate, puddle, puff, scatter, slosh, slosh around, slush, slush around, sprinkle, travel, triumph, wave | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Swash\, n. [Cf. {Swash}, v. i., {Squash}, v. t.] (Arch.)
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. [Cf. {Swash}, v. i., {Squash}, v. t.]
Soft, like fruit too ripe; swashy. [Prov. Eng.] --Pegge.
\Swash\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Swashed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Swashing}.] [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.
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