Definition of Swashing

1. a. Swaggering; hectoring.

Definition of Swashing

1. Verb. (present participle of swash) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Swashing

1. swash [v] - See also: swash

Lexicographical Neighbors of Swashing

swarving
swash
swashbuckle
swashbuckled
swashbuckler
swashbucklers
swashbuckles
swashbuckling
swashbucklingly
swashed
swasher
swashers
swashes
swashier
swashiest
swashing (current term)
swashings
swashy
swastica
swasticas
swastika
swastikas
swat
swatch
swatchel
swatchels
swatches
swath
swathe
swathed

Literary usage of Swashing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Leaders in Homœopathic Therapeutics by Eugene Beauharnais Nash (1913)
"Aloe has rumbling before the stool, while Croton tig. has swashing in the intestines as from water. Both of these remedies having aggravation after eating ..."

2. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare (2001)
"Jonson in his Staple of News : " I do confess a swashing blow" Again in As You ... The swashing blow is a blow upon the buckler; the blow accompanied with a ..."

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