swashing

Geecries, I am sick of that swashing of yours!"

This word stems from the new fighting style of the side-sword and buckler which was filled with much "swashing and making a noise on the buckler".

A possible explanation for this term is that it derives from a fighting style using a side-sword with a buckler in the off-hand, which was applied with much "swashing and making a noise on the buckler".

Inexplicably spurning both the Navy and the swashing of buckles, Mr. Neill rose to sergeant after enlisting in the Vietnam-era Army in 1963; afterward he landed at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop (classmates: John Irving and Gail Godwin.)

A gallant curtle-axe upon my thigh, A boar spear in my hand; and- in my heart Lie there what hidden woman's fear there will- We'll have a swashing and a martial outside, As many other mannish cowards have That do outface it with their semblances.