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Is swash a Scrabble word?

Yes, swash is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 11 points in Scrabble.

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What is the meaning of swash?

Definition

noun (English)

1. (technical) The water that washes up on shore after an incoming wave has broken.Examples: "It is not the direct battering that breaks the dyke, but overtopping, when the flow of water sweeps away the inland face, so swash length is a vital thing to accommodate, and to do that you must make an estimate of the highest possible tides."; "The first process occurs when swash mixes air and sand, trapping air bubbles just below the beach surface."; "The swash is made up of the remnants of a breaking wave."countableuncountable

2. (typography) A long, protruding ornamental line or pen stroke found in some typefaces and styles of calligraphy.Examples: "Yet Svvaſh-Letters, […] ought to have the Upper Sholder of that Svvaſh Sculped dovvn ſtraight, viz. to a Right Angle, or Square vvith the Face; […]"; "There is a group of decorative swash initials, too."; "so swash versions of the capitals were produced as alternatives."countableuncountable

3. (obsolete) Liquid filth; wash; hog mash.Examples: "And it setteth the soul at liberty, and maketh her free to follow the will of God and doth to the soul even as health doth unto the body; after that a man is pined and wasted away with a long soaking disease, the legs cannot bear him, he cannot lift up his hands to help himself, his taste is corrupt, sugar is bitter in his mouth, his stomach abhorreth [meat.] longing after slibbersause and swash, at which a whole stomach is ready to cast his gorge."countableobsoleteuncountable

4. (obsolete) A blustering noise.countableobsoleteuncountable

5. (obsolete) swaggering behaviour.Examples: "Some of you are making a great swash in life and after awhile will die, leaving your families beggars, and will expect us ministers of the Gospel to come and lie about your excellencies; but we will not do it."; "He silently cursed the recently arrived Jessup, who was full of more swash than sense ."; "Not short on self-assurance, Gulbadeen opened the batting (and bowled at the death) with more swash than buckle."countableobsoleteuncountable

6. (obsolete) A swaggering fellow; a swasher.countableobsoleteuncountable

verb (English)

1. (ambitransitive) To swagger; to act with boldness or bluster (toward).Examples: "He swashed out of the room, and presently we heard his angry voice berating his bearer."; "He swashed about (cautioned though he was to maintain silence concerning his past theatrical relationships) in such a self-confident manner that he was like to convince every one of his identity by mere matter of circumstantial evidence."; "The men he'd swashed were coming at him, with determination if no great skill."ambitransitive

2. (ambitransitive) To dash or flow noisily; to splash.Examples: "How the sea rolls swashing ‘gainst the side! Stand by for reefing, hearties!"; "There was an inch or two of water on the floor in our room that continually swashed, swashed from side to side, with the rolling of the ship."; "Standing at the rail of his caravel on a sultry Caribbean evening as the water jogged and swashed the boat, he smelled the perfume of soil and flowers wafting on a land breeze from the island of Cuba."ambitransitive

3. (ambitransitive) To swirl through liquid; to swish.Examples: "The parts are swashed in the solution until they are clean and are then rinsed in cold running water."; "I followed one set to the laundrey, where for two hours the samples were swashed and soaked, and swashed again, with strong laundry soap."; "His gray and black hair on his head swashed in the dirty water around what used to be his face."ambitransitive

4. (intransitive) To wade forcefully through liquid.Examples: "Kala Nag swashed out of the water, blew his trunk clear, and began another climb; but this time he was not alone, and he had not to make his path."; "While Col-d'Argent sank collapsed upon the Bridge, and the horse charged over him, and again charged, and beat and were beaten three several times, Anhalt-Dessau, impatient of such fiddling hither and thither, swashed into the stream itself with his Prussian Foot; swashed through it, waist-deep or breast-deep, and might have settled the matter had not his cartridges got wetted."; "We clambered over the giant ahuehuete like Lilliputians over the body of a Gulliver, and swashed through the slimy flood."intransitive

5. (ambitransitive) To swipe.Examples: "'[…] ye ill-farren, useless bowdikite!' said she, as she swashed the dishclout about my lugs,"; "It was a fire sword That I swashed about the world, O how I swashed The great fire sword that lit the sky"; "Steady rhythms swash, swash, on my chest Yes, yes."ambitransitive

6. (intransitive) To fall violently or noisily.Examples: "The Archbyshop of Yorke[…]swasht him down, meaning to thrust himselfe in betwixt the Legate, and the Archbyshop of Canterbury."intransitive

adj (English)

1. (typography) Having pronounced swashes.Examples: "The French compositor took the greek capitals for latin ones and sought out his swashest type to set the handwritten letters,"; "The failing to avoid at all costs when using this type of capital is that of making them too swash."; "A couple of the swashest Italic capitals have gone over the top"

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "swash"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "swash"?

Scrabble
11 points
S1
W4
A1
S1
H4
Words With Friends
10 points
S1
W4
A1
S1
H3

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