Swashbuckler vs Rampage - What's the difference?
swashbuckler | rampage |
A swordsman or fencer who engages in showy or extravagant sword play.
*1786 : Phillips, in his New World of Words defines, to swash, to make fly about; to clash, or make a noise with swords; and a swash-buckler, a vain glorious sword player or fencer, a meer braggadochoe, a vapouring fellow. — Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons , page 80.
A daring adventurer.
A kind of period adventure story with flashy action and lighthearted tone.
A course of violent, frenzied action.
* {{quote-book, year=2006, author=
, title=Internal Combustion
, chapter=1 To move about wildly or violently
* 2014 , Ian Black, "
As nouns the difference between swashbuckler and rampage
is that swashbuckler is a swordsman or fencer who engages in showy or extravagant sword play while rampage is a course of violent, frenzied action.As a verb rampage is
to move about wildly or violently.swashbuckler
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(wikipedia swashbuckler)Noun
(en noun)rampage
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* (Running amok)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Blast after blast, fiery outbreak after fiery outbreak, like a flaming barrage from within,
Verb
(rampag)Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis", The Guardian , 27 November 2014:
- It is a sunny morning in Amman and the three uniformed judges in Jordan’s state security court are briskly working their way through a pile of slim grey folders on the bench before them. Each details the charges against 25 or so defendants accused of supporting the fighters of the Islamic State (Isis), now rampaging across Syria and Iraq under their sinister black banners and sending nervous jitters across the Arab world.