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单词 swashing
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swashingn.

/ˈswɒʃɪŋ/
Etymology: < swash v. + -ing suffix1.
1. Ostentatious behaviour; swaggering.Cf. swash n.1 7, 8, swash adj.1 2, swash v. 3, swasher n.2, swashing adj. 1.
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the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > [noun] > making a display
strutting1399
pluming1486
swashing1556
flantado1582
showing forth1615
jetting1654
parading1686
flaunting1729
showing off1822
peacocking1837
swanking1900
1556 J. Olde tr. R. Gwalther Antichrist f. 138v The ruffling and ioyly swashing of a princes courte.
1584 R. Greene Gwydonius f. 2 To see my sonne..consume his time..in swearing and swashing.
2. Violent or noisy striking.
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the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific degree of force > [noun] > striking violently
dushing1340
frushing1487
swashinga1661
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) London 199 Swash-Buckler [so called] from swashing, or making a noise on Bucklers.
3. Dashing or splashing of water.
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the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of splashing > [noun] > of water
plashing1542
flushing1573
swashing1819
1819 Countess Spencer Let. 3 Nov. in Corr. Lady Lyttelton (1912) viii. 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.
1864 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia IV. xvii. v. 558 The primordial diluviums and world-old torrents,..with such storming, gurgling, and swashing.
1870 J. Sharpe in Eng. Mech. 4 Mar. 608/3 ‘Rushing’ and ‘swashing’ in millstones is caused by not driving the stone from its centre.
1872 O. W. Holmes Poet at Breakfast-table (1885) xi. 287 Sparrows..keep up such a swashing and swabbing and spattering round..the water basins.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online March 2019).

swashingadj.

/ˈswɒʃɪŋ/
Forms: Also 1600s swassing.
Etymology: < swash v. + -ing suffix2.
1. Characterized by ostentation, or by showy or blustering behaviour; swaggering; swashbuckling; dashing. (Cf. swashing n. 1.)
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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
1556 J. Olde tr. R. Gwalther Antichrist f. 147 I speake not now of mytred bishoppes, and swashing abbottes.
a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) i. iii. 119 Weele haue a swashing and a marshall outside. View more context for this quotation
a1640 J. Day & H. Chettle Blind-beggar (1659) sig. G3 The name and habit of some swashing Italian or French Noble-man.
1665 G. Havers tr. P. della Valle Trav. E. India 181 By profession Souldiers, sufficiently swashing and brave.
1684 T. Otway Atheist iv. 41 A blustering, roaring, swashing Spark.
1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas II. iv. iii. 29 With the swashing outside of a gay spark.
1821 W. Scott Kenilworth I. iv. 76 Lay aside your swashing look.
1885 R. L. Stevenson Prince Otto i. iv The song went to a rough, swashing, popular air.
2. Applied to a particular stroke in fencing, perhaps the ‘stramazon’; also of a weapon: Slashing with great force. In modern use only in reminiscences of Shakespeare. (Cf. swash adj.1 1, washing n.)
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > fencing > [adjective] > actions
washing1567
swash1599
swashing1622
riposted1707
whipped1771
riposting1889
1622 Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet (new ed.) i. i. 60 Gregorie, remember thy swashing [1599, 1609, 1623 washing] blowe.
1670 J. Milton Hist. Brit. ii. 75 The Britans had a certain skill with their broad swashing Swords and short Bucklers.
1862 G. A. Lawrence Barren Honour I. x. 210 Even ‘Lanky Jem’ recovered after a while from Somers' swashing blow.
1876 G. O. Trevelyan Life & Lett. Macaulay II. xii. 253 (note) He soon showed that he had not forgotten his swashing blow.
1905 Times 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.
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the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of splashing > [adjective] > splashing or dashing
flashy1582
swashing1620
plashing1813
splashing1837
spluttering1846
slushing1863
sousing1891
sloshing1924
1620 J. Taylor Praise of Hemp-seed 31 Drencht with the swassing waues, and stewd in sweat.
1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) xiv. 101 Rendered dangerous..by the swashing ice and a growing fog.

Derivatives

ˈswashingly adv. swaggeringly; in a swashbuckling style.
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the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > blustering or bravado > [adverb]
roistingly1571
swaggeringly1611
bravingly1616
roisteringly1659
swashingly1665
blusteringlya1714
huffishly1755
hectoringly1913
1665 C. Cotton Scarronnides 32 He wore a hat, Instead of Sattin fac'd with fat, Which being limber-grown, we find Most swashingly pin'd up behind.
1891 Sat. Rev. 15 Aug. 179/2 Mr. Balfour spoke..swashingly about Sir William Harcourt.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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