Dictionary Entry
swash
swash is a 5-letter English word with 15 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: An oval figure, whose moldings are oblique to the axis of the work. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 10 · 15 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
An oval figure, whose moldings are oblique to the axis of the work.
- 2transitive verb
Soft, like fruit too ripe; swashy.
- 3intransitive verb
To dash or flow noisily, as water; to splash; as, water swashing on a shallow place.
- 4intransitive verb
To fall violently or noisily.
- 5intransitive verb
To bluster; to make a great noise; to vapor or brag.
- 6noun
Impulse of water flowing with violence; a dashing or splashing of water.
- 7noun
A narrow sound or channel of water lying within a sand bank, or between a sand bank and the shore, or a bar over which the sea washes.
- 8noun
Liquid filth; wash; hog mash.
- 9noun
A blustering noise; a swaggering behavior.
- 10noun
A swaggering fellow; a swasher.
- 11noun
the movement or sound of water
"the swash of waves on the beach"
- 12verb
act in an arrogant, overly self-assured, or conceited manner
- 13verb
show off
- 14verb
dash a liquid upon or against
"The mother splashed the baby's face with water"
- 15verb
make violent, noisy movements
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