swash

== English == === Etymology === Scandinavian. Compare Swedish dialect svasska, Norwegian svakka, English dialect swack (“a blow”). === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /swɒʃ/ (General American) IPA(key): /swɑʃ/ Rhymes: -ɒʃ === Noun === swash (countable and uncountable, plural swashes) (technical) The water that washes up on shore after an incoming wave has broken. 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. A wet splashing sound. A smooth stroke; a swish. A swishing noise. (typography) A long, protruding ornamental line or pen stroke found in some typefaces and styles of calligraphy. A streak or patch. (obsolete) Liquid filth; wash; hog mash. (obsolete) A blustering noise. (obsolete) swaggering behaviour. (obsolete) A swaggering fellow; a swasher. (architecture) An oval figure, whose mouldings are oblique to the axis of the work. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Verb === swash (third-person singular simple present swashes, present participle swashing, simple past and past participle swashed) (ambitransitive) To swagger; to act with boldness or bluster (toward). (ambitransitive) To dash or flow noisily; to splash. (ambitransitive) To swirl through liquid; to swish. (intransitive) To wade forcefully through liquid. (ambitransitive) To swipe. (intransitive) To fall violently or noisily. To streak, to color in a swash. ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Adjective === swash (comparative swasher, superlative swashest) bold; dramatic. (typography) Having pronounced swashes. === References === “swash”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. === Anagrams === hawss, Shaws, shwas, shaws, Sawhs