swash

noun

Meaning

The water that washes up on shore after an incoming wave has broken
A long, protruding ornamental line or pen stroke found in some typefaces and styles of calligraphy.
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.
Liquid filth; wash; hog mash.
A blustering noise.
Swaggering behaviour.
To swagger; to bluster and brag.
To dash or flow noisily; to splash.
To fall violently or noisily.
Soft, like overripe fruit; swashy; squashy.

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