swasher

English

Etymology

swash +‎ -er

Noun

swasher (plural swashers)

  1. (obsolete) One who makes a blustering show of valor or force of arms.
    • 1599, William Shakespeare, King Henry V.:
      As young as I am, I have observ'd these three swashers. I am boy to them all three; but all they three, though they would serve me, could not be man to me; for indeed three such antics do not amount to a man.

References
  • swasher in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

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