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Swoosh vs Swash - What's the difference?

swoosh | swash |

As verbs the difference between swoosh and swash

is that swoosh is to move with a rushing or swirling sound while swash is to swagger; to bluster and brag.

As nouns the difference between swoosh and swash

is that swoosh is a swooshing movement or sound while swash is the water that washes up on shore after an incoming wave has broken.

As an adjective swash is

soft, like overripe fruit; swashy; squashy.

swoosh

English

Verb

(es)
  • To move with a rushing or swirling sound
  • The fishing rod swooshed through the air.

    Noun

    (es)
  • A swooshing movement or sound
  • *{{quote-book, 2005, Frank Arricale, Obviously Not Clairvoyant citation
  • , passage="What the hell is a swoosh ?" the McDonald's rep asked. "You know — a swoosh. Like when you go fast. 'Swoosh!'" }}
  • A pattern or logo suggesting a swooshing movement.
  • *{{quote-book, 2000, Jack Trout & Steve Rivkin, The Power of Simplicity citation
  • , passage=Even TV announcers at the last Winter Olympics were spotted with a swoosh on their jackets.}}
  • * 2009 , Jennifer Visocky O'Grady, Kenneth Visocky O'Grady, A Designer's Research Manual (page 7)
  • lf, on the other hand, you're one of the thousands of graphic designers whose education was based primarily in the art department; almost all of your clients have MBAs and neutral blue swoosh logos
  • * 2011 , Carmen Torbus, The Artist Unique (page 39)
  • Create various patterns and swooshes in the wet gesso with the old credit card or any other texture tool you choose.

    Derived terms

    * swooshy

    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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