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adjective

Swashing adj.

Swaggering; hectoring. "A swashing and martial outside."

Resounding; crushing. "Swashing blow."

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Etymology of 'Swashing'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Swashing" Quotes from Famous Books

... don thy buff coat and cap of steel, and walk with thy swashing step, and whistling thy pibroch of 'Broken Bones at Loncarty'; and if they take me for thee, there dare not four ...

— The Fair Maid of Perth • Sir Walter Scott

... leeward—he could not have kept his place, on the other side. The rain was still falling so heavily, on deck, that it sounded like a waggon passing overhead; and mingled with this noise was the howl of the wind, and the swashing of the water against the ship's side. Gradually the motion of the vessel became more violent, and she quivered from bow to stern, ...

— Held Fast For England - A Tale of the Siege of Gibraltar (1779-83) • G. A. Henty

... went to a rough, swashing, popular air; and long after the words became inaudible the swing of the music, rising and falling, echoed insult in the Prince's brain. He fled the sounds. Hard by him on his right a road struck towards the palace, and he followed it through the thick shadows and branching alleys of the park. ...

— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson

... better, Because that I am more then common tall, That I did suite me all points like a man, A gallant curtelax vpon my thigh, A bore-speare in my hand, and in my heart Lye there what hidden womans feare there will, Weele haue a swashing and a marshall outside, As manie other mannish cowards haue, That doe outface it with ...

— The First Folio [35 Plays] • William Shakespeare