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Meanings of swash in English

Portuguese
vangloriar-se
Catalan
gallejar
Spanish
alardear

To show off.

      vangloriar-se
      Portuguese
      borrifar
      Catalan
      esquitxar
      Spanish
      salpicar

      Dash a liquid upon or against.

            borrifar

            A typographical flourish found on some letterforms, particularly in italics.

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                  Usage of swash in English
                  1
                  Not a sound could he hear, save the swash of the waves.
                  As It Was in the Beginning
                  2
                  Here, in these secluded nooks, I found security from the steamer's swash.
                  Four Months in a Sneak-Box / A Boat Voyage of 2600 Miles Down th...
                  3
                  I s'pose Ingolby has paid this old skeesicks for talking this swash.
                  The World for Sale, Volume 2.
                  4
                  He felt the swash of the fragrant water upon his body.
                  The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War
                  5
                  I was as a man who swash-buckles- arecklessmariner of the olden time.
                  John Gayther's Garden and the Stories Told Therein
                  6
                  I can hear the swash of water just the same, Dick.
                  The Hilltop Boys on Lost Island
                  7
                  It was otherwise with the roistering swash-bucklers who came back in that glorious autumn.
                  The Coming of the Friars
                  8
                  It must be fun to swash the water round and dig out the soap.
                  Eight Cousins
                  9
                  A swash of ice-water filled the bottom of the skiff.
                  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 52, February, 1862 / A Maga...
                  10
                  There was a swash of foam, and she was gone.
                  The Cruise of the Dry Dock
                  11
                  As cup ties go it was more buckling than swash.
                  The Irish Times
                  12
                  Hollywood has certainly played a starring role in giving impressionable teenagers some swash-buckling role models.
                  Reuters
                  13
                  Do not let it be supposed that I had become a swash-buckler of a soldier.
                  The Minute Boys of the Mohawk Valley
                  14
                  Stern heard her breath, gasping and quick, above the roar and swash of the mad waters.
                  Darkness and Dawn
                  15
                  He is a brute, a swash-buckler, a drunkard.
                  The Man With The Broken Ear
                  16
                  Oh, a sorter swash-bucklin' Spanish don-thekind whut likes ter dress up, an' play the dandy.
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