Definition of Swasher

1. n. One who makes a blustering show of valor or force of arms.

Definition of Swasher

1. Noun. (obsolete) One who makes a blustering show of valor or force of arms. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Swasher

1. one that swashes [n -S] - See also: swashes

Lexicographical Neighbors of Swasher

swarty
swartzite
swarve
swarved
swarves
swarving
swash
swashbuckle
swashbuckled
swashbuckler
swashbucklers
swashbuckles
swashbuckling
swashbucklingly
swashed
swasher (current term)
swashers
swashes
swashier
swashiest
swashing
swashings
swashy
swastica
swasticas
swastika
swastikas
swat
swatch
swatchel

Literary usage of Swasher

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"A roaring blade ; a swaggerer; a swasher. With courtly knights, not roaring country ... Having the character of a swasher; swaggering; slashing; dashing. ..."

2. The Bookman (1907)
"... my Lord, we don't want no rain like dat— We don't want no swisher, swasher— We don't want no gulley-washer— We des want a little driz»ly, ..."

3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1872)
"She loved the gay young ploughboy, Whistling behind his team ; When to their joys an end was put, As quickly it shall seem. Ben swasher was a captain, ..."

4. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"In prov. use 'to swash ' means to swagger, to walk with a boastful air; 'a swasher' is a swaggerer, see EDD. (sv Swash, 5). swash-buckler, one who ' swashes ..."

5. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1879)
"... closs we us'd to drink anil rant, Until we baith did glow'r ami gaunt,— Right sii;uh I true. Ramsay's Poem*, i. 218. [swasher ..."

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