資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Swashing \Swash"ing\, a.
1. Swaggering; hectoring. ``A swashing and martial outside.''
--Shak.
2. Resounding; crushing. ``Swashing blow.'' --Shak.
Swash \Swash\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Swashed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Swashing}.] [Probably of imitative origin; cf. Sw. svasska
to splash, and, for sense 3, Sw. svassa to bully, to
rodomontade.]
1. To dash or flow noisily, as water; to splash; as, water
swashing on a shallow place.
2. To fall violently or noisily. [Obs.] --Holinshed.
3. To bluster; to make a great noise; to vapor or brag.