bib vs swash

bib

noun
  • The upper part of an apron or overalls. 

  • A rectangular piece of material, carrying a bib number, worn as identification by entrants in a race. 

  • A patch of colour around an animal's upper breast and throat. 

  • A bibb (bibcock). 

  • Similar items of clothing such as the Chinese dudou and Vietnamese yem. 

  • An item of clothing for people (especially babies) tied around their neck to protect their clothes from getting dirty when eating. 

  • A colourful polyester or plastic vest worn over one's clothes, usually to mark one's team during group activities. 

  • Shorts which are held up by suspenders. 

  • A north Atlantic fish (Trisopterus luscus), allied to the cod. 

verb
  • To dress (somebody) in a bib. 

  • To beep (e.g. a car horn). 

swash

noun
  • An oval figure, whose mouldings are oblique to the axis of the work. 

  • A long, protruding ornamental line or pen stroke found in some typefaces and styles of calligraphy. 

  • A smooth stroke; a swish. 

  • A wet splashing sound. 

  • The water that washes up on shore after an incoming wave has broken. 

  • A streak or patch. 

  • 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. 

  • A swishing noise. 

verb
  • To swipe. 

  • To streak, to color in a swash. 

  • To wade forcefully through liquid. 

  • To swagger; to act with boldness or bluster (toward). 

  • To fall violently or noisily. 

  • To dash or flow noisily; to splash. 

  • To swirl through liquid; to swish. 

adj
  • bold; dramatic. 

  • Having pronounced swashes. 

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