1600-1700swashbuckler ‘noisy boastful fighter’(16-20 centuries), from swash ‘to wave around or hit noisily’(15-20 centuries) (probably from the sound) + buckler
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
a swashbuckling ship captain
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
But there is no shifting the swashbuckling McInerney.
He has everything a swashbuckling hero needs - except good looks.
The Westons' brief life stories would have done credit to the swashbuckling imagination of a Stevenson, Scott or Dumas.
Ultra-confident, dashing and with a swashbuckling air he is the archetypal head boy or captain of the rugby team.
relating to adventures in which people do brave exciting things and fight against their enemies with swords: a swashbuckling hero a swashbuckling tale of pirates—swashbuckler noun [countable]