(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) looking back over the series, which finished on Friday with Joe Swash crowned king of the jungle.
(2) Joe Swash's crowning as the king of the jungle brought a peak audience of 9.7 million to ITV1's I'm a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here!
(3) However, as my colleague Rosie Swash detailed in her article , the thigh gap obsession is not good.
(4) Well Happy, which launched at the healthcare innovation expo on 13 March , has also been supported by various celebrities including singer Joss Stone, former Eastenders' star Joe Swash, designer Sadie Frost and actor Ralph Little.
(5) The case against Maybe ease up on the ye-olde-smugglers-yo-ho-ho-and-a-bottle-of-rum schtick: sometimes you don't want your swashes to be buckled.
(6) The Cube is for people who PVR then series-link Hole In The Wall, then need to Stain Devil urine out of their pouffe because Joe Swash was knocked into a paddling pool wearing a Bacofoil catsuit while imitating the Pharaoh Rameses.
(7) Rosie Swash Mendelssohn's Octet I cry all the time at music.
(8) I've asked Rosie Swash about the Stand By Your... rumours.
(9) Months earlier, Prigoff had travelled to Boston to photograph the Rainbow Swash, a series of bright, colorful stripes painted on a 140-foot gas storage tank in Dorchester.
(10) He hasn’t changed his hairstyle, either, though it is trying to get away from his eyebrows, and he’s wearing a cool leather jacket and generally looks ready to swash a buckle or two despite being fully 72 years old.
(11) Rufus Hound is saying goodbye, and according to Rosie Swash, the warm-up man is on.
(12) ldn.ihollaback.org Rosie Swash is a music writer for the Guardian
(13) I had a problem with my antiquated machine (it's so old some of the keys have their letters written in pen) but that's all over now... 7.01pm: So as guests pass up the red carpet scramble for their seats (our v own Rosie Swash has blagged her way into the hall and should be keeping us updated with gossip - or at least what's she's eating for dinner) time to update you as to what to expect tonight.
(14) Swash suggested that progressive denervation of the stretched pelvic sphincter musculature that occurs in genuine stress incontinence is due to repeated stretch injury of the innervation of these muscles when the pelvic floor diaphragm is weak.
(15) Rosie Swash will be here to take you through the night’s fashion thrills and fails, whereas I (Tim Jonze) will be keeping you updated with any gossip from the O2 and perhaps even some interesting facts about tonight’s ceremony.
(16) Prigoff explained his Rainbow Swash incident, the only thing that came to mind from Boston that he reasoned could have prompted Ayaz's contact.
(17) This column has always given a big thumbs-up to Madame Caryn Franklin , but her contention in Swash's piece that young women aspiring to unachievable physical ideals is a new development won't quite do.
(18) As it happens, the Rainbow Swash is readily visible on Google Images.
(19) Spokesman Jason Holmes told the Guardian's Rosie Swash that almost 15,000 vehicles have already arrived on site and that "excitement levels are high" ahead of the England v Slovenia match this afternoon.
(20) This beat last year's final, which peaked at 9.7 million and saw Joe Swash crowned King of the Jungle .
Swashbuckler
Definition:
(n.) A bully or braggadocio; a swaggering, boastful fellow; a swaggerer.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fantastic Beasts, which is set 70 years prior to the arrival of Potter and his pals at the magical Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, will feature the swashbuckling adventurer Newt Scamander.
(2) Only Chelsea are above Brendan Rodgers' swashbuckling side in the Premier League table now.
(3) Eliot Spitzer, who as the swashbuckling New York state attorney general unearthed the stock ramping of the dotcom bubble, was elected governor of New York in January 2007 but lasted less than 18 months after he was linked to a prostitution ring and forced to quit.
(4) On a recent Tuesday morning, as schoolchildren careered through the villa's sun-splashed corridors, one girl quietly contemplated a photograph of a swashbuckling pirate wearing a raffia tricorne .
(5) It was hard to know what to expect from United: would we see the swashbuckling side that stormed past Olympiakos on Wednesday night to reach the last eight of the Champions League or the one that was embarrassed by Liverpool?
(6) Photograph: Allstar One, two, swashbuckle my shoe: history's bow tie spins in horror as 15th-century polymath is recast as wisecrackin' action hunk.
(7) The film begins in 2008, and follows the WikiLeaks founder's ascent from underground hacktivist to international terrorist, in the eyes of Washington, or swashbuckling cyberhero to his admirers.
(8) The appearance of Ballesteros on that list is especially pertinent, given the swashbuckling style which links him and Mickelson.
(9) Peacock was a swashbuckling centre-forward when he was on Bristol City’s books as a schoolboy, until he was 14.
(10) Avatar 2, 3 and 4 will also feature returning stars Sam Worthington, as disabled soldier turned swashbuckling Na'avi rebel Jake Sully, and Zoe Saldana as his alien paramour Neytiri.
(11) It is not the most obvious of roles for Bean, now 58, who built a name for himself as a swashbuckler and sword-swinger, famous mostly for his many glorious on-screen deaths .
(12) He’s the Bundesliga’s most successful foreign goal-scorer (176 goals before the start of the season), he looks like a swashbuckling 1950s film star and his signing promised nothing less than a return to the good old times, when Werder weren’t serial relegation contenders but taking on Europe’s heavyweights in the Champions League.
(13) Swashbuckling victories over Croatia caught the eye, but Terry's most admirable display came in leading a youthful team to victory in Berlin.
(14) Predictably, Cardinale and Rochefort had worked together before – in a 1962 swashbuckler called Cartouche, also starring Jean-Paul Belmondo .
(15) Barely 12 months later, the Shell lifer has turned into a swashbuckling corporate acquirer, agreeing to take over BG in one of the biggest deals ever seen in the energy sector.
(16) The Algerian, Spanish and even Germans fans in Gijón were disgusted by what they witnessed and waved white hankies and so on to protest,” says Chaabane Merzekane, a full-back whose swashbuckling performance in toppling the Germans earned him the man-of-the-match award.
(17) He was seen as a back-to-basics operator by the City who loved Browne's swashbuckling style until the share price began to suffer after the Texas City fire, a pipeline spill in Alaska and a propylene trading scandal.
(18) Their eye-pleasing, swashbuckling style has served them well on the domestic front over the past two seasons, but not so well in Europe.
(19) A similar swashbuckling spirit – and, perhaps, Ferdinand's presence on the coaching staff – was one of the factors that attracted Pienaar to Spurs.
(20) It took barely 10 minutes for a room full of sombre shareholders to deliver the last rites yesterday to Bear Stearns , the 85-year-old Wall Street brokerage once feared for its swashbuckling, high-risk culture of aggression.