swashing

Verb

swash (third-person singular simple present swashes, present participle swashing, simple past and past participle swashed)

1. (ambitransitive) To swagger; to act with boldness or bluster (toward).
   • He swashed out of the room, and presently we heard his angry voice berating his bearer.1910, Jerome Klapka Jerome, Robert Barr, Arthur Lawrence, The Idler: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine - Volume 37, page 1327
2. (ambitransitive) To dash or flow noisily; to splash.
   • How the sea rolls swashing ‘gainst the side! Stand by for reefing, hearties!1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Moby Dick’’, chapter 40”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC
3. (ambitransitive) To swirl through liquid; to swish.
   • The parts are swashed in the solution until they are clean and are then rinsed in cold running water.1917, The Automobile - Volume 37, page 233
4. (intransitive) To wade forcefully through liquid.
   • Kala Nag swashed out of the water, blew his trunk clear, and began another climb; but this time he was not alone, and he had not to make his path.1894, Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book
5. (ambitransitive) To swipe.
   • '[…] ye ill-farren, useless bowdikite!' said she, as she swashed the dishclout about my lugs,1828, The night watch; or, Tales of the sea - Volume 2, page 97
6. (intransitive) To fall violently or noisily.
   • The Archbyshop of Yorke[…]swasht him down, meaning to thrust himselfe in betwixt the Legate, and the Archbyshop of Canterbury.1577, Raphaell Holinshed, The Laste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume II, London: […] for Iohn Hunne, →OCLC, page 444, column 2

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