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Definition of Swasher
1. n. One who makes a blustering show of valor or force of arms.
Definition of Swasher
1. Noun. (obsolete) One who makes a blustering show of valor or force of arms. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Swasher
1. one that swashes [n -S] - See also: swashes
Lexicographical Neighbors of Swasher
Literary usage of Swasher
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"A roaring blade ; a swaggerer; a swasher. With courtly knights, not roaring country
... Having the character of a swasher; swaggering; slashing; dashing. ..."
2. The Bookman (1907)
"... my Lord, we don't want no rain like dat— We don't want no swisher, swasher—
We don't want no gulley-washer— We des want a little driz»ly, ..."
3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1872)
"She loved the gay young ploughboy, Whistling behind his team ; When to their joys
an end was put, As quickly it shall seem. Ben swasher was a captain, ..."
4. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"In prov. use 'to swash ' means to swagger, to walk with a boastful air; 'a swasher'
is a swaggerer, see EDD. (sv Swash, 5). swash-buckler, one who ' swashes ..."
5. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1879)
"... closs we us'd to drink anil rant, Until we baith did glow'r ami gaunt,— Right
sii;uh I true. Ramsay's Poem*, i. 218. [swasher ..."
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