swash

Meanings

1. The water that washes up on shore after an incoming wave has broken.
2. 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.
3. A wet splashing sound.
4. A smooth stroke; a swish.
5. A swishing noise.
6. A long, protruding ornamental line or pen stroke found in some typefaces and styles of calligraphy.
7. A streak or patch.
8. Liquid filth; wash; hog mash.
9. A blustering noise.
10. swaggering behaviour.
11. A swaggering fellow; a swasher.
12. An oval figure, whose mouldings are oblique to the axis of the work.

1. To swagger; to act with boldness or bluster (toward).
2. To dash or flow noisily; to splash.
3. To swirl through liquid; to swish.
4. To wade forcefully through liquid.
5. To swipe.
6. To fall violently or noisily.
7. To streak, to color in a swash.

1. bold; dramatic.
2. Having pronounced swashes.

Etymology

Scandinavian. Compare Swedish dialect svasska, Norwegian svakka, English dialect swack (“a blow”).