Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who swashes, or makes a blustering show of valor or force of arms; a braggart; a bully.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who makes a blustering show of valor or force of arms.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun obsolete One who makes a blustering show of valor or force of arms.

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Examples

  • Because they cannot ride a horse, which every clown can do; salute and court a gentlewoman, carve at table, cringe and make conges, which every common swasher can do, [1990] hos populus ridet, &c., they are laughed to scorn, and accounted silly fools by our gallants.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Because they cannot ride a horse, which every clown can do, salute and court a gentlewoman, carve at table, cringe and make congees, which every common swasher can do … they are laughed to scorn and accounted silly fools by our gallants.

    Inside Higher Ed 2009

  • "Because they cannot ride an horse, which every clown can do; salute and court a gentlewoman, carve at table, cringe and make congees, which every common swasher can do, his populus ridet, etc., they are laughed to scorn, and accounted silly fools by our gallants.

    Mangan's 2008

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