Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To act as a swashbuckler, as in a movie or play.
Etymologies
- Back-formation from swashbuckler. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“He, who was sheer bladed steel in the imperious flashing of his will, could swashbuckle and bully like any over-seas roisterer, or wheedle as wickedly winningly as the first woman out of Eden or the last woman of that descent.”
“No offense to those who liked the Errol Flynn version the best (the man sure could swashbuckle), but please stop calling him the "original".”
“A gleeful, no-holds-barred nod to Charles Dickens, peppered liberally with doses of Gothic and swashbuckle.”
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“V. F.'s guest editor and Ed Coaster swashbuckle from Bamako to Soweto.”
“Raised by an anthropologist mother specializing in women's studies and a father who taught college English, she grew up to swashbuckle her way through Yale and then Oxford as a Rhodes scholar.”
“But the crowd roared even more when the real Steve Jobs unveiled the new iBook -- the latest evidence that no computer company can swashbuckle like Apple.”
“I'm just saying its nice to have someone around who knows how to swashbuckle.”
“What's more, these guys see their quest as a shot in the dark, and with the courage of youth-and the swashbuckle from consuming probably too much science fiction-they show none of the inbred timidity that supposedly characterizes their countrymen.”
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“Looks at Zuma Dogg and extends hand for handshake Zuma lad, it is not that I wish you to remain silent; rather, if you will, observe this battle rather than draw your sword and swashbuckle.”
“And if you weren't waiting, then swashbuckle away with ye.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘swashbuckle’.
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WF - list of EN back-formations
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_back-formations
aborigine, accrete, acculturate, admix, admixture, adolesce, adsorb, adulate, advect, aesthete, air-condition, anticline and 212 more...
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Pirate Words
Arrrrrrrgh. September 19th is International Talk Like a Pirate Day, mateys.
arrrrrrrrgh., ahoy, plank, avast, shiver-me-timbers, wench, scurvey dogs, aye aye, land lubber, swabbie, swashbuckle, gold and 21 more...
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sillygoose's Words
nefarious, waffle, dilettante, love, obstreperous, suggestible, fodder, plucky, trajectory, eclectic, juggernaut, demure and 115 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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dienekes's Words
chutzpah, lexicon, intrepid, pedagogical, schlemiel, schism, erudite, anathema, pugilist, jaunty, paradigm, automaton and 949 more...
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arby's words
me default
shirty, kerfuffle, tenterhooks, susurrus, palimpsest, crimson, rufous, cicatrix, crepuscular, carapace, quaff, exanimate and 239 more...
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vivek's list
flibbertigibbet, droll, reticence, prelude, erinaceous, brinkmanship, depone, inaniloquent, limerance, pronk, onomatopoeia, oxymoron and 385 more...
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cucchiaio's Words
ambidextrous, octogenarian, unanimous, semaphore, luminous, indigenous, epistemological, ravenous, receptacle, petrify, rectify, lepidopterologist and 104 more...
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hustle & bustle
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gargle, dangle, dingle, bristle, cajole, girdle, doodle, stumble, wamble, jostle, hustle, bustle and 61 more...
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verb
that's what's happening...
slither, galumph, bamboozle, befuddle, burgle, fluster, chortle, commiserate, finagle, flummox, filch, gargle and 77 more...
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Pleasing to the Ear
swashbuckle, nerf, enunciate, ambivalent, perambulist, curmudgeon, longitude, coagulate, saskatchewan, wood, faggot, dodongo and 33 more...
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ef.rock's Words
labyrinthine, swashbuckle, inert, farcical, panopticon, sisyphean, stopgap, verisimilitude, impalpable, somnambulist, quixotic, truthiness and 7 more...
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Snicker-snack!
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