swash
- n the movement or sound of water
the swash of waves on the beach - v make violent, noisy movements
- v dash a liquid upon or against
- v show off
- v act in an arrogant, overly self-assured, or conceited manner
- But that doesn't make this biography any less swash-bucklingly gripping.
- A swash buckling world traveler and a columnist for France's moderately conservative Le Figaro, he prefaces his book by insisting that it is "no wild-eyed dream," then drives .
- At Newport, some terrible trials for Terrible Ted At the helm of Courageous he still cuts a dashing Errol Flynn figure, but some of the old swash has gone out of his buckle.