shower vs swash

shower

verb
  • To spray with (a specified liquid). 

  • To rain in a shower; to cascade down. 

  • To bathe using a shower. 

  • To bestow liberally, to give or distribute in abundance. 

noun
  • A brief fall of precipitation (spell of rain, or a similar fall of snow, sleet, or cascade). 

  • A party associated with a significant event in a person's life, at which the person usually receives gifts. 

  • A baby shower. 

  • An instance of using of this device in order to bathe oneself. 

  • Used as an intensifying pluralizer or intensifier 

  • One who shows. 

  • A quantity of something that has characteristics of a rain shower. 

  • An object or activity that is shown in a contest. 

  • A bridal shower. 

  • A shower of shit. 

  • A man whose penis is close to its full (erect) size when flaccid, or the penis itself. 

  • A device for bathing by which water is made to fall on the body from a height, either from a tank or by the action of a pump. 

swash

verb
  • To wade forcefully through liquid. 

  • To swipe. 

  • To streak, to color in a swash. 

  • 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. 

noun
  • 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. 

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

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