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▪ I. swashing, vbl. n.|ˈswɒʃɪŋ|
[f. swash v. + -ing1.]
1. Ostentatious behaviour; swaggering.
(Cf. swash n.1 7, 8, swash a.1 2, swash v. 3, swasher2, swashing ppl. a. 1.)
1556Olde Antichrist 138 b, The ruffling and ioyly swashing of a princes courte. 1587Greene Carde of Fancie Wks. (Grosart) IV. 14 To see my sonne,..consume his time..in swearing and swashing.
2. Violent or noisy striking.
a1661Fuller Worthies, London ii. (1662) 199 Swash⁓Buckler [so called] from swashing, or making a noise on Bucklers.
3. Dashing or splashing of water.
1819C'tess Spencer Let. 3 Nov. in Corr. Lady Lyttelton viii. (1912) 215 Only that we still keep up that rare and useless custom of washing and swashing, we should pig it as comfortably as they wallow in Italy. 1864Carlyle Fredk. Gt. xvii. v. IV. 558 The primordial diluviums and world-old torrents,..with such storming, gurgling, and swashing. 1870J. Sharpe in Eng. Mech. 4 Mar. 608/3 ‘Rushing’ and ‘swashing’ in millstones is caused by not driving the stone from its centre. 1872O. W. Holmes Poet Breakf.-t. xi. (1885) 287 Sparrows..keep up such a swashing and swabbing and spattering round..the water basins.
▪ II. swashing, ppl. a.|ˈswɒʃɪŋ|
Also 7 swassing.
[f. swash v. + -ing2.]
1. Characterized by ostentation, or by showy or blustering behaviour; swaggering; swashbuckling; dashing. (Cf. prec. 1.)
1556Olde Antichrist 147, I speake not now of mytred bishoppes, and swashing abbottes. 1600Shakes. A.Y.L. i. iii. 122 Weele haue a swashing and a marshall outside. c1600Day Begg. Bednall Gr. iv. i. (1881) 77 The name and habit of some swashing Italian or French Noble-man. 1665G. Havers P. della Valle's Trav. E. India 181 By profession Souldiers, sufficiently swashing and brave. 1684Otway Atheist iv. i, A blustering, roaring, swashing Shark. 1809Malkin Gil Blas iv. iii. ⁋4 With the swashing outside of a gay spark. 1821Scott Kenilw. iv, Lay aside your swashing look. 1885Stevenson Prince Otto i. iv, The song went to a rough, swashing, popular air.
2. Applied to a particular stroke in fencing, perh. the ‘stramazon’; also of a weapon: Slashing with great force. In mod. use only in reminiscences of Shakespeare. (Cf. swash a.1 1, washing.)
1611Beaum. & Fl. Philaster v. iv, With this swashing blow,..I could hulk your Grace, and hang you up cross-leg'd. c1615Shaks.'s Rom. & Jul. i. i. 70 (Qo. 4) Gregorie, remember thy swashing [Qo. 2 & 3, Fo. washing] blowe. 1670Milton Hist. Eng. ii. Wks. 1851 V. 70 The Britans had a certain skill with their broad swashing Swords and short Bucklers. 1862G. A. Lawrence Barren Honour I. x. 210 Even ‘Lanky Jem’ recovered after a while from Somers' swashing blow. 1876Trevelyan Life & Lett. Macaulay II. xii. 253 note, He soon showed that he had not forgotten his swashing blow. 1905Times 17 June 4/6 [He] is a swashing foe of all accepted or debated theories but his own.
3. Of water, etc.: Dashing and splashing.
1620J. Taylor (Water P.) Praise Hemp-seed (1623) 31 Drencht with the swassing waues, and stewd in sweat. 1853Kane Grinnell Exp. xiv. (1856) 101 Rendered dangerous..by the swashing ice and a growing fog.
Hence ˈswashingly adv., swaggeringly; in a swashbuckling style.
1664Cotton Scarron. iv. (1741) 79 He wore a Hat Instead of Sattin lac'd with Fat, Which being limber grown we find Most swashingly pinned up behind. 1891Sat. Rev. 15 Aug. 179/2 Mr. Balfour spoke..swashingly about Sir William Harcourt. |