swashing
English
Adjective
swashing (comparative more swashing, superlative most swashing)
- Swaggering; hectoring.
- c. 1599, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act I, Scene 3,
- We’ll have a swashing and martial outside
- As many other mannish cowards have
- That do outface it with their semblances.
- c. 1599, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act I, Scene 3,
- Resounding; crushing.
- c. 1594, William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act I, Scene 1,
- Draw, if you be men. Gregory, remember thy swashing blow.
- c. 1594, William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act I, Scene 1,
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