swashing

swashing

1. present participle of swash

swashing (comparative more swashing, superlative most swashing)

1. 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.

2. Resounding; crushing.
   • c. 1594, William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act I, Scene 1,

     Draw, if you be men. Gregory, remember thy swashing blow.

swashing (plural swashings)

1. A back-and-forth movement of liquid; a swish or swash.

• washings