swashsweshn.2
Scottish. Obsolete exc. Historical.1609 J. Skene tr. Stat. Gild in Regiam Majestatem 143 After they heare the striak of the swesch (or the sound of the trumpet).1827 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd 47 Wi' swesch-trump in his hand.1871 P. H. Waddell Psalms frae Hebrew xlvii. 5 God has gane up wi' a sugh; the Lord wi' the tout o' a swesch.
1. A kind of drum. Also attributive. swash-head n. a drum-head. swash-man n. = swasher n.1
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > percussion player > [noun] > drummer
drumslade1513
swash-man1533
drum?1535
drumsler1541
drummer1574
drumster1581
swasher1600
drum man1645
drum boy1758
stick1909
skin-beater1936
society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > percussion instrument > drum > [noun] > other drums
taborinc1500
swash1533
war-drum1593
wolf-drum1605
saddle drum1617
tombak1662
tom-tom1693
goombay1790
rommelpot1790
rommelpot?1798
water drum1824
pahu1829
tabl1831
tambourin1832
dholuck1837
nagara1839
tree-drum1850
ngoma1860
talking drum1897
pot drum1907
friction drum1909
trap-drum1924
ghoema1934
tamboo1942
tassa1948
steel drum1952
conga drum1955
roto-tom1968
conga1969
Isukuti1972
steel pan1973
syndrum1979
society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > percussion instrument > drum > [noun] > drumhead
head1567
swash-head1574–5
drumhead1580
skin1615
batter-head1704
tympanum1908
1533 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1905) VI. 159 For ane swasche talburne to the futmen xxs.
1541 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1907) VII. 478 The twa Toddeis that playis upoun the Swische taburn.
1543–4 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1908) VIII. 250 Thre playarris upon the swesche.
1562 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1844) I. 343 Passing throw the toun with ane swech.
1571 in R. Renwick Extracts Rec. Royal Burgh of Lanark (1893) 55 That thei nychtly wache with the balleis fra the strak of the secund strak of the suishe.
1574–5 Burgh Rec. Glasgow (1876) I. 455 Item, to Thomas Downy for inputting of the schoscheheid v s. Item, for ane perchement skyn to Robert Muir to cover the scosche iij s. vj d.
1576 in A. Macdonald & J. Dennistoun Misc. Maitland Club (1840) II. 343 For ane swasche to our moustiris iiijli.
1578 J. Rolland Seuin Seages 20 With trumpet, schalme, drum squasche & clarioun.
1593 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1848) II. 81 Andro Inglis, sweschman, commoun servand to the toun.
1598 in R. Pitcairn Criminal Trials Scotl. II. 30 ‘Stryke þe swasch’ and ‘Ryng þe commoun bell’!
1625–6 Charters etc. Peebles (1872) 414 Item, gewine John Robeine for striking of the swyche, xij s.
1672 Burgh Rec. Peebles (1872) 336 At the stryking of the swysche.
2. Misused for: A trumpet. Also swash-trump.This is the only meaning given by Jamieson, 1808, on the authority of quot. 1609; cf. also the following, where the Latin original would seem to warrant such a meaning:—
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > brass instruments > [noun] > trumpet
bemea800
stockc950
trump1297
buysine1340
trumpeta1393
swash1533
slug-horna1770
horn1935
1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (S.T.S.) ii. lxiv. 238 Horsmen with swasche and taberne [L. cornicines tubicinesque in equis impositos].
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† swashn.3
/swɒʃ/, U.S. /swɔʃ/, /swɑʃ/ Obsolete.
1. Turning, etc., A figure or ornament the lines or mouldings of which lie obliquely to the axis of the work.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > pattern or design > [noun] > others
popinjay1322
serpent1388
moss-work1600
flame1602
frostwork1631
damask branch1634
mascaron1664
lacework1675
swash1680
branch-work1702
escallop-shella1706
festoon work1712
ovum1728
bricking1760
rising sun1787
ram's horn1842
linen-pattern1845
linen-scroll1854
wheel-rood1862
primal1875
patch ornament1878
tree1879
wheel-cross1882
skeuomorph1889
linenfold1891
taotie1915
boteh1917
pelta1935
starburst1953
quilling1972
towel-pattern-
1680 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. xiv. 241 You set it to that Slope you intend the Swash on your Work shall have.
1680 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. Explan. Terms sig. Ll2v Swash, a Swash is a Figure whose Circumference is not Round, but Oval; and whose Moldings lye not at Right Angles, but Oblique to the Axis of the Work.
2. Printing. The flourished extension characteristic of swash letters (see swash adj.2 2).
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society > communication > printing > printed matter > printed character(s) > [noun] > flourish
swash1683
1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 118 Especially , whose Swashes come below the Foot-Line.., ought to have the..Sholder of that Swash Sculped down straight.
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swashadj.1
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > fencing > [adjective] > actions
washing1567
swash1599
swashing1622
riposted1707
whipped1771
riposting1889
1599 J. Minsheu Pleasant Dialogues Spanish & Eng. in R. Percyvall & J. Minsheu Spanish Gram. This wound hurts me not much, for it is giuen with the hand vpward, but beware of the swash blow [Spanish el rebés], for I will draw it with the hand downwards.
2. † a. ? Swashbuckling, swaggering: = swashing adj. 1. Obsolete.
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the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > blustering or bravado > [adjective]
termagant1546
roisterly1555
swashing1556
puffing1566
roisting1567
cocking1568
braving1579
huffling1582
kill-cow1589
roister-doistering1593
roister-doisterly1593
hufty-tufty1596
swaggering1596
huff-cap1597
sword-and-buckler1598
huffing1602
pyrgopolinizing1605
bold-beatinga1616
swash1635
swaga1640
blustering1652
bravashing1652
hectoring1664
hectorly1676
huffy1677
huff-snuff1693
swashbuckling1693
flustering1698
blustery1739
huffish1755
bravading1812
topping1815
Bobadilish1832
Bobadilian1837
fanfaronading1837
bucko1883
swashbucklering1884
swaggery1886
blokeish1920
blokey1938
1635 J. Gower Pyrgomachia sig. A3v Some others..Are of the rash-swash-fellowes band.
b. ‘Swell’, ‘swagger’, showy. dialect.
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the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > [adjective]
rankOE
peacockly?a1425
ruffling1531
garish1545
peacockish1551
peacock-like1576
ostentatious1590
fastuous?1591
flaring1593
flantitanting1596
ostentive1599
ostentative1601
showful1607
flourishable1614
flourishing1616
flaunting1624
ostentous1624
ostentatory1638
swasha1640
fanfaron1670
paradeful1748
ostensible1782
epideictic1790
fandangous1797
flashy1801
affiché1818
show-off1818
splashing1820
flaunty1825
splash-and-dash1830
pretentious1832
flash1836
splashy1836
pretenceful1841
swanky1842
peacocky1844
fantysheeny1847
splurgy1852
cheesy1858
pretensivea1868
duchessy1870
swagger1879
lavish1882
splurging1884
show-offy1890
razzmatazz1900
show-offish1903
whoop-de-do1904
Ritz1908
split-arse1917
swanking1918
ritzy1919
fantoosh1920
knock-me-down1922
showboating1936
showboat1939
hellzapoppin'1945
zazzy1961
glitzy1966
sploshy1966
zhuzhy1968
noncy1989
bling1999
a1640 J. Day & H. Chettle Blind-beggar (1659) sig. D3v Old Simsons son..that wears his great gall gaskins o' the Swash-fashion, with 8 or 10 gold laces of a side.
1713 S. Sewall Diary 5 Nov. (1973) II. 732 I first see Col. Tho. Noyes in a swash Flaxen Wigg.
1866 W. Gregor Dial. Banffshire (Philol. Soc.) 187 Swash, gaudy; showy... (2) Of ostentatious manners.
1877 F. Ross et al. Gloss. Words Holderness Swash, showy; gaudy.
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swashadj.2
/swɒʃ/, U.S. /swɔʃ/, /swɑʃ/ 1. Turning, etc. Inclined obliquely to the axis of the work. swash-work, work in which the cuttings or mouldings traced round a cylinder are inclined to the axis; also called pumped work. swash-engine, an apparatus for turning swash-work. swash-board, swash-plate, ‘a rotating, circular plate, inclined to the plane of its revolution so as to give a vertical reciprocation to the rod, whose foot rests thereupon, and which moves between lateral guides’ (E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech., 1875); also called pumping-plate.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine tool > lathe > [adjective] > attributes of lathes and their parts
swash1680
self-centring1829
1680 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. xiv. 241 To the Turning of Swash-Work you must have two such Puppets as the Fore-puppet described in §22.
1680 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. xiv. 241 Upon both the Flat sides of this Swash Board in a Diametrical Line is fastned upright an Arch of a Quadrant made of a Steel Plate... The convex edges of these Quadrants are cut into Notches,..that according as you may have occasion to set the Swash-Board more or less a-slope, you may be accommodated with a Notch or Tooth to set it at.
1680 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. xiv. 242 These Oval-Engines, Swash-Engines, and all other Engines.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 360/1 The Turning Engine [is] for the turning of Oval Work, Rose Work, and Swash Work.
1703 London Gaz. No. 3887/4 A Gold Watch in a Grav'd Case..; with a Moco Stone Swash.
1812 P. Nicholson Mech. Exercises 356 Turning is also of different kinds, as Circular Turning, Elliptic Turning, and Swash Turning.
2. Printing. Applied to old-style capital letters having flourished strokes designed to fill up unsightly gaps between adjacent letters.
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society > communication > printing > printed matter > printed character(s) > [adjective] > capital > flourished capital
swash1683
1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 118 Swash-Letters, especially .
1867 W. T. Brande & G. W. Cox Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art (new ed.) III. 673/2 Swash Letters..have been revived of late years with the reintroduced old-fashioned types.
1899 T. L. De Vinne Pract. Typogr. (1902) 271 (note) An excellent form of old-style italic of bold face, with the swash letters and other features of quaintness.
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swashadj.3
dialect.
Soft; also, fuddled.
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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective] > drunk
fordrunkenc897
drunkena1050
cup-shottenc1330
drunka1400
inebriate1497
overseenc1500
liquor1509
fou1535
nase?1536
full1554
intoxicate1554
tippled1564
intoxicated1576
pepst1577
overflown1579
whip-cat1582
pottical1586
cup-shota1593
fox-drunk1592
lion-drunk1592
nappy1592
sack-sopped1593
in drink1598
disguiseda1600
drink-drowned1600
daggeda1605
pot-shotten1604
tap-shackled1604
high1607
bumpsy1611
foxed1611
in one's cups1611
liquored1611
love-pot1611
pot-sick1611
whift1611
owl-eyed1613
fapa1616
hota1616
inebriated1615
reeling ripea1616
in one's (or the) pots1618
scratched1622
high-flown?1624
pot-shot1627
temulentive1628
ebrious1629
temulent1629
jug-bitten1630
pot-shaken1630
toxed1635
bene-bowsiea1637
swilled1637
paid1638
soaken1651
temulentious1652
flagonal1653
fuddled1656
cut1673
nazzy1673
concerned1678
whittled1694
suckey1699
well-oiled1701
tippeda1708
tow-row1709
wet1709
swash1711
strut1718
cocked1737
cockeyed1737
jagged1737
moon-eyed1737
rocky1737
soaked1737
soft1737
stewed1737
stiff1737
muckibus1756
groggy1770
muzzeda1788
muzzya1795
slewed1801
lumpy1810
lushy1811
pissed1812
blue1813
lush1819
malty1819
sprung1821
three sheets in the wind1821
obfuscated1822
moppy1823
ripe1823
mixed1825
queer1826
rosined1828
shot in the neck1830
tight1830
rummy1834
inebrious1837
mizzled1840
obflisticated1840
grogged1842
pickled1842
swizzled1843
hit under the wing1844
obfusticatedc1844
ebriate1847
pixilated1848
boozed1850
ploughed1853
squiffy?1855
buffy1858
elephant trunk1859
scammered1859
gassed1863
fly-blown1864
rotten1864
shot1864
ebriose1871
shicker1872
parlatic1877
miraculous1879
under the influence1879
ginned1881
shickered1883
boiled1886
mosy1887
to be loaded for bear(s)1888
squiffeda1890
loaded1890
oversparred1890
sozzled1892
tanked1893
orey-eyed1895
up the (also a) pole1897
woozy1897
toxic1899
polluted1900
lit-up1902
on (also upon) one's ear1903
pie-eyed1903
pifflicated1905
piped1906
spiflicated1906
jingled1908
skimished1908
tin hat1909
canned1910
pipped1911
lit1912
peloothered1914
molo1916
shick1916
zigzag1916
blotto1917
oiled-up1918
stung1919
stunned1919
bottled1922
potted1922
rotto1922
puggled1923
puggle1925
fried1926
crocked1927
fluthered1927
lubricated1927
whiffled1927
liquefied1928
steamed1929
mirackc1930
overshot1931
swacked1932
looped1934
stocious1937
whistled1938
sauced1939
mashed1942
plonked1943
stone1945
juiced1946
buzzed1952
jazzed1955
schnockered1955
honkers1957
skunked1958
bombed1959
zonked1959
bevvied1960
mokus1960
snockered1961
plotzed1962
over the limit1966
the worse for wear1966
wasted1968
wired1970
zoned1971
blasted1972
Brahms and Liszt?1972
funked up1976
trousered1977
motherless1980
tired and emotional1981
ratted1982
rat-arsed1984
wazzed1990
mullered1993
twatted1993
bollocksed1994
lashed1996
the world > matter > constitution of matter > softness > [adjective] > deficient in hardness
softa1398
swasha1800
1711 A. Ramsay Elegy Maggy Johnstoun vi We did baith..pish and spew, and yesk and maunt, Right swash I true.
1728 A. Ramsay Poems II. Gloss. Swash, squat, fuddled.
a1800 S. Pegge Suppl. Grose's Provinc. Gloss. (1814) Swash, and Swashy, soft, like fruit too ripe. Derb.
1888 S. O. Addy Gloss. Words Sheffield
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swashv.
/swɒʃ/, U.S. /swɔʃ/, /swɑʃ/ 1. transitive. To dash or cast violently.
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the world > movement > impelling or driving > projecting through space or throwing > throw [verb (transitive)] > violently
dusta1225
stetec1330
swinga1400
whirra1400
wapc1440
whirlc1440
to throw off1551
swash1577
ding1614
bung1825
whither1825
1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 444/2 The Archbyshop of Yorke..swasht him down, meaning to thrust himselfe in betwixt the Legate, and the Archb. of Canterbury.
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 2 This Queene wyld lightninges from clowds of Iuppiter hurling Downe swasht theyre nauy.
1710 T. Ruddiman in G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneis (new ed.) Gloss. at Squat Scot. swash, Ang. squat is to cast against the ground.
1866 W. Gregor Dial. Banffshire (Philol. Soc.) 187 Swash, beat with severity, (2) To dash violently.
2. intransitive. To dash or move violently about; also occasionally reflexive.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > move irregularly or be agitated [verb (intransitive)]
whirlc1290
boilc1300
balterc1400
worka1535
turmoil1547
jumble1568
swash1583
commotion1599
stimmer1616
belk1648
the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > move irregularly or be agitated [verb (reflexive)] > toss about or wallow
walterc1380
welter1535
tumble1577
swash1583
1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie cxxxi. 807/1 As a swyne when he hath once winded his meat, runnes on to swash himself in it [Fr. se fourrer là].
1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xxxi. vii. 413 On all sides swords swashed and darts flew as thicke as haile.
3. To make a noise as of swords clashing or of a sword beating on a shield (cf. swashbuckler n.); to fence with swords; to bluster with or as with weapons; to lash out; hence, to swagger.
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the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > make ostentatious display or show off [verb (intransitive)]
brandishc1340
ruffle1484
braga1556
swash1556
flourish1563
flaunt1566
prank1567
prink1573
to shake, wag the feather1581
peacockize1598
air1605
display1608
to launch it out1608
flasha1616
to cut it out1619
flare1633
vapour1652
peacock1654
spark1676
to gallantrize it1693
bosh1709
glare1712
to cut a bosh1726
to show away1728
to figure away, off1749
parade1749
to cut a dashc1771
dash1786
to cut up1787
to cut a flash1795
to make, or cut, a splash1804
swank1809
to come out strong1825
to cut a spludge1831
to cut it (too) fat1836
pavonize1838
splurge1844
to do the grand1847
to cut a swath1848
to cut a splurge1860
to fan out1860
spread1860
skyre1871
fluster1876
to strut one's stuff1926
showboat1937
floss1938
style1968
society > society and the community > dissent > fighting > fight [verb (intransitive)] > fight (as) with swords
swash1556
society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > cut of sharp weapon > cut or thrust with sword > use or fight with sword [verb (intransitive)]
skirmisha1387
swash1556
to blade ita1566
to fight, play, etc. at the sharp1579
to cross swords1816
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > fencing > fence [verb (intransitive)]
playeOE
skirmisha1387
to play at bucklersa1500
swash1556
fencea1616
tilt1699
wrench1771
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sudden or violent sound > [verb (intransitive)] > of impact or concussion > crash, clash, or smash
crush1398
clash?1518
swash1556
crash1563
the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific degree of force > strike with specific degree of force [verb (intransitive)] > heavily > and resoundingly
swash1556
bang1713
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > make an attack upon [verb (transitive)] > attack with hostile words or measures
fangc1320
hurtlec1374
impugnc1384
weighc1386
to fall upon ——a1398
to start on ——a1398
oppugn?1435
to lay to, untoa1500
onseta1522
wipe1523
to set against ——1542
to fall aboard——1593
aggress1596
to fall foul1602
attack1613
appugn1615
to set upon ——1639
to fall on ——1641
to lay home, hard, hardly to1650
tack1720
bombard1766
savage1796
to pitch into ——1823
to begin upon a personc1825
bulldog1842
to down on (also upon)a1848
to set at ——1849
to start on ——a1851
to start in on1859
set on at or to1862
to let into1872
to go for ——1890
swash1890
slog1891
to get at ——1893
tee1955
1556 [implied in: J. Olde tr. R. Gwalther Antichrist f. 138v The ruffling and ioyly swashing of a princes courte. (at swashing n. 1)].
1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus at Concrepo Concrepare gladiis ad scuta, to swashe, or make a noyse with swoordes agaynst tergattes.
1593 T. Lodge Life & Death William Long Beard C 3 b He over~maistered [them] by his attendants, swashing out in the open streets uppon everie light occasion.
1593 Bacchus Bountie in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) II. 265 I giue them right to sweare it out with wordes, I giue them might to swash it out with swordes.
1600 N. Breton Pasquils Fooles-cap (rev. ed.) sig. C2 Shee that..Ruffin-like, will sweare, and swash it out.
1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Cortellare, to fence, to swash with swords, to swagger.
1629 Z. Boyd Last Battell Soule (new ed.) 673 [They], in hight of stomacke, ruffling & swashing, did tread vpon God's turtles.
4. transitive. To dash or splash (water) about; to dash water upon, souse with water or liquid; (of water) to beat with a splash against.
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the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of splashing > splash [verb (transitive)] > water > about
flashc1460
swash1589
sparge1786
1589 A. Fleming in tr. Virgil Georgiks iv. 64 (note) in A. Fleming tr. Virgil Bucoliks Gargarise, or swash in and about the mouth.
1656 tr. T. White Peripateticall Inst. 67 As it happens in liquids when they are swash'd up and down.
1721 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. To Swash, to make fly about, as Water.
1828 D. M. Moir Life Mansie Wauch xix. 281 Having a bucket..I swashed down such showers on the top of the flames.
1836 W. Irving Astoria (1849) v. 61 For three hours and a half did they tug..at the oar, swashed occasionally by the surging waves of the open sea.
1862 G. H. Kingsley Sport & Trav. (1900) 375 Men swishing and swashing and brooming about.
1863 W. W. Story Roba di Roma II. i. 1 The boards on which the meats are laid are swashed constantly with water.
1876 R. Bridges Growth of Love xxvii What grisly beast of scaly chine That champ'd the ocean-wrack and swashed the brine.
1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 28 Sept. 8/1 He added that the excursion boats also swashed the Thistle, damaging her to a certain extent.
5. intransitive. Of water or of an object in water: To dash with a splashing sound; to splash about.
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the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of splashing > splash [verb (intransitive)] > about
jaup1513
swilker1674
swash1836
swilk1865
1836 W. Irving Astoria (1849) lviii. 477 The next wave threw their bodies back upon the deck, where they remained swashing backward and forward.
1843 T. Carlyle Dr. Francia in Crit. & Misc. Ess. (1857) IV. 269 You have all got linen bathing-garments, and can swash about with some decency.
1847 H. Melville Omoo x The water fairly poured down in sheets..swashing about.
1876 J. G. Holland Story of Sevenoaks (new ed.) v. 65 Flocks of ducks..swashed down with a fluttering ricochet into the water.
1892 H. G. Hutchinson Fairway Island 25 The sea at the cliff foot—swashing ever louder and louder.
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swashadv.int.n.1
/swɒʃ/, U.S. /swɔʃ/, /swɑʃ/ A. adv. and int.
Expressive of the fall of a heavy body or blow: With a crash.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sudden or violent sound > [adverb] > crash, clash, or smash
swash?1548
swashly1582
crash1762
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sudden or violent sound > [interjection] > crash
swash?1548
?1548 J. Bale Comedy Thre Lawes Nature ii. sig. Bijv Haue in than at a dash, With swash myry annet swash.
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis ii. 35 Pat fals thee turret, thee Greeks with crash swash yt heapeth.
1863 E. C. Gaskell Sylvia's Lovers II. xv. 7 If a hadn't been too quick for her, it would have a' gone swash down i' t' litter.
1927 J. Masefield Midnight Folk 92 He swung Blackmalkin [sc. a cat] round his head and pitched him swosh into the mud.
B. n.1
I. Senses relating to water, and related uses.
1. † b. transferred. Nonsense; worthless stuff. Cf. hogwash n. 3. slang. obsolete.
a. Pig-wash; also, wet refuse or filth.
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the world > food and drink > food > animal food > [noun] > fodder > pig fodder > wash
swine meat1434
hogwashc1450
swash1528
swillinga1529
swilla1570
wash1585
washmeat1688
slop1805
pigswill1862
1528 W. Tyndale Parable Wicked Mammon in Wks. (1573) 65/1 His stomacke abhorreth longyng after slibbersause and swashe, at which a whole stomacke is readye to cast hys gorge.
1634 F. Meres Wits Common Wealth ii. 50 Swine..refuse partriges and delicats, and doe greedily hunt after Acornes and other swash.
1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words II Swash..(4) Refuse; hog-wash.
1878 W. Dickinson Gloss. Words & Phrases Cumberland (ed. 2) Swash, wet stuff.
1893 Times (Weekly ed.) 10 Feb. 114 The well-filled troughs of swash and potatoes round which I have seen pigs crowd.
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1895 W. C. Gore in Inlander Nov. 65 Swosh,..nonsense; inferior work.
1924 J. Galsworthy White Monkey ii. v. 162 Anyway sentiment was swosh! Cut it out!
2. A body of water moving forcibly or dashing against something.An alleged sense ‘stream, puddle of water’, entered in Phillips's World of Words, ed. Kersey, 1706, is not otherwise authenticated.
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the world > the earth > water > body of water > moving water > [noun]
quicka1300
backwatera1387
main flood?1556
main tide1605
confluence1615
swash1671
flow1802
sweep1816
water slide1824
slide1869
run-off1915
1671 S. Skinner & T. Henshaw Etymologicon Linguæ Anglicanæ Swash, a great Swash of water, magnus & cum magno impetu ruens aquarum Torrens.
1844 W. H. Maxwell Wanderings in Highlands & Islands II. xviii. 5 Some ‘swash’ in the Goodwins.
1852 N. Hawthorne Blithedale Romance xxvii. 272 Up came a white swash to the surface of the river. It was the flow of a woman's garments.
1860 Wilts. Archæol. Mag. VI. 380 (note) A man in answer to my question of how the rain seemed to fall, said ‘It came down in swashes’.
3. Chiefly U.S. = swatch n.3
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the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > channel > [noun] > navigable channel through shoals, etc.
channel1536
thoroughfare1598
swatch1626
traversea1645
pilot water1653
swash1694
pass1698
waterway1759
water lane1779
swatchway1798
fairwater1802
swash-way1839
water gate1850
stoach-way1853
seaway1866
swash channel1885
1694 Narbrough's Acct. Several Late Voy. 52 I sent the Boat for Water to a Swash on the East-side.
1694 Narbrough's Acct. Several Late Voy. 46 It drains into salt Water-swashes.
1775 B. Romans Conc. Nat. Hist. E. & W. Florida App. 78 As the bank is bound with a reef here, you must pick your way through that, which you may, as there are several swashes, which though they are narrow, have no less than 11 or 12 feet thro'.
1788 T. Jefferson Writings (1859) II. 453 Having got themselves near the swash, at the mouth of the Boristhenes.
1869 New Orleans Bee in Schele de Vere Americanisms (1872) 556 It is said they took refuge in the swash behind the house.
4. A heavy blow, esp. of, or upon, some yielding substance; the sound of this.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sound of blow or fall > [noun]
smitea1200
smita1425
yark1555
riprapc1580
brattlea1600
verberation1609
whack1737
whang1770
swash1789
plunk1809
tack1821
pong1823
snop1849
thunge1849
knap1870
thung1890
pow1931
thunk1952
bonk1957
the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific degree of force > [noun] > striking heavily > a heavy blow > on a yielding surface
squelch1620
swash1789
1789 D. Davidson Thoughts Seasons 32 Forthwith amain he [sc. the salmon] plunges on his prey, Wi' eager swash.
1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) xxvi. 211 The voices of the ice and the heavy swash of the overturned hummock-tables.
1865 G. MacDonald Alec Forbes I. ix. 60 The cruel serpent of leather went at him, coiling round his legs with a sudden, hissing swash.
1866 W. Gregor Dial. Banffshire (Philol. Soc.) 187 Swash, a severe blow. (2) A severe dash.
1898 J. Paton Castlebraes ii. 49 I laid ma Heezel Rung, a second swash, athwart the safter pairts.
5.
a. The action of water dashing or washing against the side of a cliff, ship, etc. or of waves against each other; the sound accompanying this.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sound of water > [noun] > in movement
wash1845
swash1847
souse1883
sloosh1919
1847–54 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Swash..2. Impulse of water flowing with violence.
1849 W. S. Mayo Kaloolah (1850) ii. 21 The captain fancied that he heard the swash of the water against the sides of a ship.
1850 G. Cupples Green Hand iv. 46/2 The lazy swash of the water round our fore-chains.
1863 N. Hawthorne Our Old Home II. 142 The swash and swell of the passing steamers.
1883 Harper's Mag. Feb. 393/1 We were steaming along splendidly now, sending up a fine wash and swash along the banks.
1892 H. G. Hutchinson Fairway Island 25 The swash of the sea at the cliff foot.
b. Physical Geography. The rush of sea water up the beach after the breaking of a wave.
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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > wave > movement of waves > [noun] > rush towards shore
suff1588
inrolling1883
swash1919
1919 D. W. Johnson Shore Processes x. 514 Since there are a variety of marks left on the sand by wave action, and the present feature is peculiarly a product of the swash, I have given it the name of ‘swash mark’.
1934 Geogr. Jrnl. 83 485 When the swash dies out the backwash of the wave returns directly down the steepest slope to the sea.
1976 P. D. Komar Beach Processes & Sedimentation ii. 14 The return flow of the swash collides with the incoming surf bores.
6. A watery condition of land; ground under water.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > marsh, bog, or swamp > [noun] > marshy quality
moorishness1598
bogginess1649
marishness1652
quagginess1653
ooziness1684
marshiness1710
sloppiness1727
swampiness1753
spoutiness1757
swash1864
swampishness1879
1864 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia IV. xvi. xiv. 478 Waters all out, ground in a swash with December rains.
1891 The Auk Jan. 65 Here [i.e. at Andros in the Bahamas] the ground is soft, and in wet weather almost entirely under water; hence the peculiar appropriateness of the local term swash.
II. Senses relating to swaggering.
7. A swaggerer; a swashbuckler; now Scottish an ostentatious person (cf. swash adj.1, swashing adj. 1).
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the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > blustering or bravado > [noun] > person
jettera1400
flirdom?a1500
facerc1500
termagant1508
rutterkina1529
bellomy1535
bystour1535
roister1549
swash1549
rush-buckler1551
roisterkin1553
swashbuckler1560
dash-buckler1567
swinge-buckler?1577
whiffler1581
huff-snuff1582
swish-swash1582
fixnet1583
swag1588
swasher?1589
kill-cow1590
roister-doister1592
dagger1597
flaunting Fabian1598
tisty-tosty1598
huff-cap1600
swaggerer1600
burgullian1601
huff-muff1602
tear-cat1606
blusterer1609
wag-feather1611
wind-cutter1611
bilbo-lorda1625
tearer1633
cacafuegoa1640
bravado1643
Hector1655
scaramouch1662
swashado1663
huffer1664
bluster-mastera1670
Drawcansir1672
bully huff1673
huff1674
belswagger1680
valienton1681
blunderbuss1685
Draw can bully1698
bouncer1764
Bobadil1771
bounce1819
pistol1828
sacripant1829
hufty1847
bucko1883
the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > [noun] > ostentatious person
peacocka1425
ruffler1536
struttera1591
flaunter1598
glisterer1628
tulip1647
parader1747
swasher1821
swash1824
dazzler1839
rooster1840
show-off1841
swankera1846
Vanity-Fairian1847
grandstander1896
spotlighter1907
swank1913
swankpot1914
showboat1932
showboater1941
pavisander1950
1549 T. Chaloner tr. Erasmus Praise of Folie sig. Diijv Commenly thei that bringe any valiant feate to passe, are good blouddes, venturers, compaignions, swasshes.
1579 S. Gosson Schoole of Abuse f. 29 Euery Duns will bee a Carper, euery Dicke Swashe a common Cutter.
1584 R. Wilson Three Ladies of London (1592) A 3 I will flaunt it and brave it after the lusty swash.
1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 117* The noddy Nash, whom euery seruing Swash With pot-iestes dash, and euery whip-dog lash.
1637 I. Jones & W. Davenant Britannia Triumphans 17 With Courtly Knights, not roaring country swashes, Hath beene her breeding still.
1659 T. Pecke Parnassi Puerperium 16 Two Swashes did the fair Camilla court.
1693 T. Southerne Maids Last Prayer ii. ii I remember your Dammee~boys, your Swashes, your Tuquoques.
1824 S. E. Ferrier Inheritance I. xviii. 200 A great gormandizing swash.
1866 W. Gregor Dial. Banffshire (Philol. Soc.) 187 Swash..(4) A vapouring dandy.
8. Swagger; swashbuckling.
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the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > blustering or bravado > [noun]
facing1481
blusteringa1494
flirdom?a1500
bravity1546
bravery1548
roistingc1560
bravado1583
roister-doisterdom1592
swash1593
swaggeringa1596
huffing1600
hufty1609
huff1611
brustling1622
hufty-tufty1633
bouncing1634
hectorism1672
huffiness1678
bluster1692
bounce1714
bravadoism1833
fanfaronading1837
bush1840
huffishness1841
swashbuckling1888
bucko1909
1593 Sonnet in G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation sig. *** If nothing can the booted Souldiour tame..But Swash will still his trompery aduaunce.
1605 A. Warren Poore Mans Passions E 3 I would elect, Flaunt, Cut, and Swash for mates, For choise Companions, pleasure, mirth, delight.
1822 Maginn in Blackwood's Mag. 11 370* The stamping, ramping, swaggering, staggering, leathering swash of an Irishman.
1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 314 What a swash he cuts!
1866 W. Gregor Dial. Banffshire (Philol. Soc.) 187 Swash..(3) The act of walking with a haughty, silly air.
Compounds
C1. General attributive. (In sense B. 5b.)
swash mark n.
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1919 [see sense B. 5b].
1982 Sci. Amer. Aug. 130/2 Seaward of a swash mark on some beaches one is likely to find smaller diamond-shaped markings left by the backwash.
swash-slope n.
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1931 Geogr. Jrnl. 78 134 They [sc. waves]..on nearing high-water mark were busily pushing forward shingle to the top of their swash slope.
swash-zone n.
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1976 P. D. Komar Beach Processes & Sedimentation ii. 14 Schiffman..defines a transition zone between the surf and swash zones.
C2.
swash bank n. (see quot. 1852).
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the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > embankment or dam > [noun] > sea-wall
sea-dike1394
seawallc1450
sea-head1531
bulwark1555
sea-bank1647
swash bank1852
1852 J. Wiggins Pract. Embanking Lands 25 The swash bank, which, having only to sustain the broken tops of the waves, is but 21/ 2 feet high and 21/ 2 feet wide at top.
swash channel n.
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the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > channel > [noun] > navigable channel through shoals, etc.
channel1536
thoroughfare1598
swatch1626
traversea1645
pilot water1653
swash1694
pass1698
waterway1759
water lane1779
swatchway1798
fairwater1802
swash-way1839
water gate1850
stoach-way1853
seaway1866
swash channel1885
1885 Cent. Mag. 29 742 The Minnesota, taking the middle or swash channel.
swash-plate n. Engineering a disc mounted obliquely on the end of a revolving shaft, which can impart to a rod in contact with the edge of the disc a reciprocating motion parallel to the axis of the shaft.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > shaft > [noun] > parts of > which imparts motion
swash-platea1877
wobble plate1904
thrust-ring1906
wobbler plate1950
a1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. III. 2467/2 Swash-plate.
1913 W. E. Dommett Motor Car Mech. 158 The plungers are driven by a swash-plate mechanism.
1977 Design Engin. July 92/1 (advt.) To obtain precise control in many fields, e.g. valves, or engine throttle position, or a pump swashplate, you need a remote position actuator.
swash-way n. ‘a channel across a bank, or among shoals, as the noted instance between the Goodwin Sands’ (Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., 1867).
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the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > channel > [noun] > navigable channel through shoals, etc.
channel1536
thoroughfare1598
swatch1626
traversea1645
pilot water1653
swash1694
pass1698
waterway1759
water lane1779
swatchway1798
fairwater1802
swash-way1839
water gate1850
stoach-way1853
seaway1866
swash channel1885
1839 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 2 221/1 Forming track-paths across swash-ways in Loch Dochfour.
1883 Chambers's Jrnl. 18 Aug. 525/2 Certain narrow fareways which seam the sands at low tide,..are called on the south side of the Roach ‘swatch’-ways, but beyond the Crouch ‘swash’-ways.
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