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▪ I. dashing, vbl. n.|ˈdæʃɪŋ|
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1. The action of the verb dash (q.v.), in various senses.
1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Heurtement, a dashing, a striking. 1694Acc. Sev. Late Voy. ii. (1711) 47 This Ice becometh very spungy by the dashing of the Sea. 1805Southey Madoc in W. xvii, The dashing of the oars awaken'd her. 1820Hazlitt Lect. Dram. Lit. 15 The roar and dashing of opinions.
2. Splashing; concr. a dash or splash (of mud, etc.); plaster dashed or laid roughly upon a wall; fig. aspersion.
1591Percivall Sp. Dict., Salpicaduras, dashings, conspersiones. 1598Florio, Zaccarélle..dashings or spots of durt or mire. 1655Fuller Ch. Hist. v. iv. §24 There is no dashing on the credit of the Lady, nor any the least insinuations of inchastity. 1809–12M. Edgeworth Absentee ix, The dashing was off the walls, no glass in the windows.
3. colloq. The action of ‘cutting a dash’; showy liveliness in dress, manners, etc.
1802[see dasher 1]. 1806T. S. Surr Winter in Lond. II. 11 Mere pips of popularity—mere dots of dashing. a1847Mrs. Sherwood Lady of Manor I. ix. 381 That most tasteless and disgusting style of manners which for some years past has obtained the name of dashing; by which term is generally understood all that is ungracious, ungenteel, and repulsive.
4. Comb. dashing-iron, the iron frame by which the dash-board is fixed to the carriage; dashing-leather, a leathern dash-board.
a1841Hook Martha, They slipped over the dashing iron between the horses. 1794W. Felton Carriages (1801) I. 206 A dashing leather is fixed on the fore part of a Carriage, to prevent the dirt splashing against the passenger.
▪ II. ˈdashing, ppl. a.
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1. That dashes; that beats violently against something; splashing.
c1325E.E. Allit. P. C. 312 Þy stryuande stremez..In on daschande dam, dryuez me ouer. 1628Earle Microcosm., Tauerne (Arb.) 34 Like a street in a dashing showre. 1839T. Beale Sperm Whale 391 The howling winds and dashing waves.
2. Characterized by prompt vigour of action; spirited, lively, impetuous.
1796Bp. Watson Apol. Bible 271 Even your dashing Matthew could not be guilty of such a blunder. 1796Burke Lett. noble Ld. Wks. 1842 II. 267 In the dashing style of some of the old declaimers. 1874Green Short Hist. ii. §7. 95 A bold, dashing soldier. 1891E. Peacock N. Brendon I. 8 He drove away at a dashing pace.
3. Given to fashionable and striking display in manners and dress; that is a ‘dasher’.
1801M. Edgeworth Belinda xix, Mrs. Freke..was a dashing, fashionable woman. 1824W. Irving T. Trav. II. 39 She had two dashing daughters, who dressed as fine as dragons.
b. transf. Of things: Fashionably showy; stylish, ‘swell’.
1816J. Scott Vis. Paris (ed. 5) 75 The dashing colonnade of the Garde Meuble. 1847De Quincey Sp. Mil. Nun vi. (1853) 12 A dashing pair of Wellington trousers.
Add:[2.] b. Dashing White Sergeant [the title of a song composed a 1792 by General Burgoyne, and incorporated into the libretto of a popular operetta by Sir Henry Bishop], a lively Scottish country dance performed in sets of three (devised by David Anderson of Dundee c 1890 and set to Bishop's tune); also, † an English dance of the early 19th. cent.
[1825in C. E. Pearce Madame Vestris (1923) 116 The stamping sort of sauce-box air with which she marched away to the tune of the ‘Dashing White Sergeant’.] 1929G. D. Taylor Some Trad. Scottish Dances 76 (heading) The Dashing White Sergeant. 1956J. C. Milligan 101 Scottish Country Dances 5 The dashing white sergeant..is a circle reel-time dance. Dancers stand in a circle round the room in 3s. A man between 2 ladies faces a lady between 2 men. The man between 2 ladies moves clockwise and the other three counter-clockwise. 1977Time Out 28 Jan.–3 Feb. 10/4 These societies gather and eat herrings and dance the Dashing White Sergeant (a visionary Scottish country dance that involves two people of one sex and one of the other). |