swash

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Noun

swash

1. The water that washes up on shore after an incoming wave has broken
2. (typography) A long, protruding ornamental line or pen stroke found in some typefaces and styles of calligraphy.
3. 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.
4. (obsolete) Liquid filth; wash; hog mash.
5. (obsolete) A blustering noise.
6. (obsolete) swaggering behaviour.
7. (obsolete) A swaggering fellow; a swasher.
8. (architecture) An oval figure, whose mouldings are oblique to the axis of the work.

Verb

swash (swashes, present participle swashing; past and past participle swashed)

1. (intransitive) To swagger; to bluster and brag.
2. (ambitransitive) To dash or flow noisily; to splash.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 40

     How the sea rolls swashing ‘gainst the side! Stand by for reefing, hearties!

3. (intransitive) To fall violently or noisily.

Translations

• Russian: плеска́ться

Adjective

swash

1. Soft, like overripe fruit; swashy; squashy.

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