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Definition of Swashy
1. a. Soft, like fruit that is too ripe; quashy; swash.
Definition of Swashy
1. Adjective. (UK dialect) soft like overripe fruit ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Swashy
1. slushy [adj SWASHIER, SWASHIEST] - See also: slushy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Swashy
Literary usage of Swashy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Rural School: Its Methods and Management by Horace M. Culter, Julia Madge Stone (1913)
"THE FAIRY CHILDREN OF THE OCEAN One hot summer's afternoon, away, way out in the
ocean Old Mother Ocean was washing, " swish-a-swashy, swish-a- swashy," ..."
2. A Dictionary, Gujarátí and English by Shápurjí Edaljí (1868)
"Imit. of the sound proceeding from a swashy thing, or a muddy place. ... Watery,
washy swashy, unsavoury. ,, a. That consists of five .,—a metrical piece, ..."
3. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1905)
"There's no dreaming in it ; there's no swashy sentiment; it does not stay to
moralize; it goes on its rhythmic and satiric beat as steady and sure and ..."
4. The Rural School: Its Methods and Management by Horace M. Culter, Julia Madge Stone (1913)
"THE FAIRY CHILDREN OF THE OCEAN One hot summer's afternoon, away, way out in the
ocean Old Mother Ocean was washing, " swish-a-swashy, swish-a- swashy," ..."
5. A Dictionary, Gujarátí and English by Shápurjí Edaljí (1868)
"Imit. of the sound proceeding from a swashy thing, or a muddy place. ... Watery,
washy swashy, unsavoury. ,, a. That consists of five .,—a metrical piece, ..."
6. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1905)
"There's no dreaming in it ; there's no swashy sentiment; it does not stay to
moralize; it goes on its rhythmic and satiric beat as steady and sure and ..."
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