swash
swash definition
swash (swäs̸h, swôs̸h)
intransitive verb
- to dash, strike, wash, etc. with a splashing sound; splash
- to swagger or bluster
Etymology: echoic
transitive verb
to splash (a liquid), as in a container
noun
- a body of swift, dashing water; specif., a channel cutting through or behind a sandbank
- a bar washed over by the sea
- the splashing of water or the sound of this
- a swaggering or blustering action
Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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