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Stashed vs Swashed - What's the difference?

stashed | swashed |

As verbs the difference between stashed and swashed

is that stashed is (stash) while swashed is (swash).

stashed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (stash)

    • stash

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • A collection, sometimes hidden; a reserve.
    • ''They had quite a stash of food saved up for emergencies.

    Verb

    (es)
  • To hide or store away for later use.
    • He stashed his liquor in the cabinet under the bar.

    swashed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (swash)

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    swash

    English

    Noun

  • 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.
    • (Moxon)
    (Webster 1913)

    Verb

    (es)
  • To swagger; to bluster and brag.
  • To dash or flow noisily; to splash.
  • *1851 ,
    • How the sea rolls swashing ‘gainst the side! Stand by for reefing, hearties!
  • To fall violently or noisily.
    • (Holinshed)

    See also

    * swashbuckler * swash letter

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Soft, like overripe fruit; swashy; squashy.
    • (Pegge)

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