单词 | swashing |
释义 | swashingn. 1. Ostentatious behaviour; swaggering.Cf. swash n.1 7, 8, swash adj.1 2, swash v. 3, swasher n.2, swashing adj. 1. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. 1. Characterized by ostentation, or by showy or blustering behaviour; swaggering; swashbuckling; dashing. (Cf. swashing n. 1.) ΘΚΠ 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.) ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. 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