swash
IPA: swˈɑʃ
noun
- 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.
verb
- (transitive, intransitive) To swagger; to act with boldness or bluster (toward).
- (transitive, intransitive) To dash or flow noisily; to splash.
- (transitive, intransitive) To swirl through liquid; to swish.
- (intransitive) To wade forcefully through liquid.
- (transitive, intransitive) To swipe.
- (intransitive) To fall violently or noisily.
- To streak, to color in a swash.
adjective
- bold; dramatic.
- (typography) Having pronounced swashes.
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