swasher

English

Etymology

swash +‎ -er

Noun

swasher (plural swashers)

1. (obsolete) One who makes a blustering show of valor or force of arms.
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, King Henry V.:

     As young as I am, I have observ'd these three swashers. I am boy to them all three; but all they three, though they would serve me, could not be man to me; for indeed three such antics do not amount to a man.

References

• “swasher”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Washers, hawsers, washers