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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
swashbuckle

1897, back-formation from swashbuckling.

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Swashbuckle (band)

Swashbuckle are an American thrash metal band based in Mercer County, New Jersey, and signed to Nuclear Blast Records. Formed in 2005, the band is known for its pirate image and humorous stage performances.

Swashbuckle (TV series)

Swashbuckle is a television show on CBeebies. Aimed at young children (young children between 2-10), it takes the form of a game show pitting children against a band of "naughty pirates".

Usage examples of "swashbuckle".

Talking sense to a swashbuckling Talaxian was tougher than frightening a Vulcan.

The one problem with swashbuckling as a profession was the tremendous demand placed upon the physical body.

Tyndall was, for his rather swashbuckling ways disturbed her, even his charm caused her disquiet, but her inclination was to trust him.

Earlier, she had dismissed tales of damsels in distress as mere feminine nonsense, but the swashbuckling young man made it seem so real.

He was handsome and unattractive, a swashbuckling, beefy, conceited man who was putting on fat and was tormented chronically by prolonged seizures of apprehension.

He has an invincible hatred of the fighting, hunting, swashbuckling side of life, symbolized in all his early books by a violent propaganda against horses.

Eggy seemed to be doing his best to resemble a big wheel among the in-crowd of Attila the Hun while even Parkwood had affected a certain swashbuckling air with silk scarves, a Panama hat and an automag hanging from his belt.

It was an enterprising, swashbuckling sort of mouth, the mouth of one who would lead forlorn hopes with a jest or plot whimsically lawless conspiracies against convention.

He enjoyed rousing, swashbuckling adventures on planets of other stars.