Swash meaning : The water that washes up on shore after an incoming wave has broken 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. Liquid filth; wash; hog mash. A blustering noise. Swaggering behaviour. A swaggering fellow; a swasher. 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. To fall violently or noisily. Soft, like overripe fruit; swashy; squashy.