Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A swash-buckler.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A swashbuckler; a bully; a roisterer.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A
swashbuckler ; abully ; aroisterer .
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Examples
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I also want to rid myself of that swingebuckler flavour.
Ayala's Angel 2004
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The chimes must be heard at midnight, let a young man be ever so well given to the proprieties, and he must have just a touch of the swingebuckler about him, or he will seem to himself to be deficient in virility.
Ayala's Angel 2004
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The chimes must be heard at midnight, let a young man be ever so well given to the proprieties, and he must have just a touch of the swingebuckler about him, or he will seem to himself to be deficient in virility.
Ayala's Angel 1993
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I also want to rid myself of that swingebuckler flavour.
Ayala's Angel 1993
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The chimes must be heard at midnight, let a young man be ever so well given to the proprieties, and he must have just a touch of the swingebuckler about him, or he will seem to himself to be deficient in virility.
Ayala's Angel 1881
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I also want to rid myself of that swingebuckler flavour.
Ayala's Angel 1881
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I also want to rid myself of that swingebuckler flavour.
Ayala's Angel 1881
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The chimes must be heard at midnight, let a young man be ever so well given to the proprieties, and he must have just a touch of the swingebuckler about him, or he will seem to himself to be deficient in virility.
Ayala's Angel 1881
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"It's well enough for swingebuckler captains, Low Country fire-eaters, to talk of holding out againt a Spanish man-of-war with twice our number of fighting men, and enough ordnance to batter the town out of existence.
To Have and to Hold Mary Johnston 1903
vanishedone commented on the word swingebuckler
Mildly disappointingly, this is apparently just an alternative to swashbuckler.
January 10, 2009