swash

(Inglese)

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) The water that washes up on shore after an incoming wave has broken.
2. (countable, uncountable) 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. (countable, uncountable) A wet splashing sound.
4. (countable, uncountable) A smooth stroke; a swish.
5. (countable, uncountable) A swishing noise.
6. (countable, uncountable) A long, protruding ornamental line or pen stroke found in some typefaces and styles of calligraphy.
7. (countable, uncountable) A streak or patch.
8. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) Liquid filth; wash; hog mash.
9. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) A blustering noise.
10. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) swaggering behaviour.
11. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) A swaggering fellow; a swasher.
12. (countable, uncountable) An oval figure, whose mouldings are oblique to the axis of the work.

Verb

1. (ambitransitive) To swagger; to act with boldness or bluster (toward).
2. (ambitransitive) To dash or flow noisily; to splash.
3. (ambitransitive) To swirl through liquid; to swish.
4. (intransitive) To wade forcefully through liquid.
5. (ambitransitive) To swipe.
6. (intransitive) To fall violently or noisily.
7. To streak, to color in a swash.

Adj

1. bold; dramatic.
2. Having pronounced swashes.

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/swɒʃ/

Etimologia (Inglese)

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

Concetti

schizzare

esibirsi

millantare

ostentare

sciacquio

sguazzare

spadroneggiare

vantarsi

sciabordio

spruzzare

mettersi in mostra

sinonimi

splash

plash

bluster

lapping

brag

vaunt

gas

gasconade

tout

shoot a line

uprush

boast

blow

give oneself airs

lap

spatter

splatter

splosh

sprinkle

put on airs

swagger

slosh

atmospheric static

swash way

atmospherics

swash channel

backwash

bray

clap

👏

dabble

dash

💨

flop

noise

popple

puff

rolling

run-up

sandbank

scatter

shoal

show off

slush

spill

splash about

static

wave

👋

white noise