swash

Meaning

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.

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

Translations

protzen

mojar

bramarbasieren

prahlen

großtun

chorro

angeben

aufschneiden

brüsten

planschen

prunken

renommieren

clapoter

schizzare

chapoteo

Pronounced as (IPA)

/swɒʃ/

Etymology

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