Swash vs Snash - What's the difference?
swash | snash |
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.
As nouns the difference between swash and snash
is that swash is the water that washes up on shore after an incoming wave has broken while snash is verbal abuse, guff.As a verb swash
is to swagger; to bluster and brag.As an adjective swash
is soft, like overripe fruit; swashy; squashy.swash
English
Noun
- (Moxon)
Verb
(es)- How the sea rolls swashing ‘gainst the side! Stand by for reefing, hearties!
- (Holinshed)