Word Meaning

swash definition and meaning

v. t. An oval figure, whose moldings are oblique to the axis of the work.
v. t. Soft, like fruit too ripe; swashy.
v. i. To dash or flow noisily, as water; to splash; as, water swashing on a shallow place.
v. i. To fall violently or noisily.
v. i. To bluster; to make a great noise; to vapor or brag.
n. Impulse of water flowing with violence; a dashing or splashing of water.
n. 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.
n. Liquid filth; wash; hog mash.
n. A blustering noise; a swaggering behavior.
n. A swaggering fellow; a swasher.