swash

Meaning

Noun

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

Verb

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

Adj

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

Synonyms

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

Pronounced as (IPA)

/swɒʃ/

Etymology

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