Definition of swash

• v. t. - An oval figure, whose moldings are oblique to the axis of the work.
• v. t. - Soft, like fruit too ripe; swashy.
• v. i. - To dash or flow noisily, as water; to splash; as, water swashing on a shallow place.
• v. i. - To fall violently or noisily.
• v. i. - To bluster; to make a great noise; to vapor or brag.
• n. - Impulse of water flowing with violence; a dashing or splashing of water.
• n. - 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.
• n. - Liquid filth; wash; hog mash.
• n. - A blustering noise; a swaggering behavior.
• n. - A swaggering fellow; a swasher.