Swashed vs Smashed - What's the difference?
swashed | smashed |
(swash)
The water that washes up on shore after an incoming wave has broken
(typography) a long, protruding ornamental line or pen stroke found in some typefaces and styles of calligraphy.
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.
(obsolete) Liquid filth; wash; hog mash.
(obsolete) A blustering noise.
(obsolete) swaggering behaviour.
(obsolete) A swaggering fellow; a swasher.
(architecture) An oval figure, whose mouldings are oblique to the axis of the work.
To swagger; to bluster and brag.
To dash or flow noisily; to splash.
*1851 ,
To fall violently or noisily.
(slang) Drunk.
(smash)
As verbs the difference between swashed and smashed
is that swashed is past tense of swash while smashed is past tense of smash.As an adjective smashed is
drunk.swashed
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*swash
English
Noun
- (Moxon)
Verb
(es)- How the sea rolls swashing ‘gainst the side! Stand by for reefing, hearties!
- (Holinshed)
See also
* swashbuckler * swash letterAnagrams
*smashed
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- I was so smashed last night, I don’t remember how I got home!