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.
Definitions
- transitive verb. An oval figure, whose moldings are oblique to the axis of the work.
- transitive verb. Soft, like fruit too ripe; swashy.
- intransitive verb. To dash or flow noisily, as water; to splash; as, water swashing on a shallow place.
- intransitive verb. To fall violently or noisily.
- intransitive verb. To bluster; to make a great noise; to vapor or brag.
- noun. Impulse of water flowing with violence; a dashing or splashing of water.
- noun. 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.
- noun. Liquid filth; wash; hog mash.
- noun. A blustering noise; a swaggering behavior.
- noun. A swaggering fellow; a swasher.
- noun. the movement or sound of water
"the swash of waves on the beach"
- verb. act in an arrogant, overly self-assured, or conceited manner
- verb. show off
- verb. dash a liquid upon or against
"The mother splashed the baby's face with water"
- verb. make violent, noisy movements
Synonyms
bluster, swagger, blow, boast, brag, gas, gasconade, tout, vaunt, plash, spatter, splash, splatter, splosh
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in swash:
Common word forms
swashed, swasher, swashes, swashing
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