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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
A swordsman or fencer who engages in showy or extravagant swordplay..
Phillips, in his New World of Words defines, to swash, to make fly about; to clash, or make a noise with swords; and a swash-buckler, a vain glorious sword player or fencer, a meer braggadochoe, a vapouring fellow.
Use swashbuckler when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Swashbuckler means A swordsman or fencer who engages in showy or extravagant swordplay..
Common synonyms include lunatic, harum-scarum, madcap, daredevil.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Phillips, in his New World of Words defines, to swash, to make fly about; to clash, or make a noise with swords; and a swash-buckler, a vain glorious sword player or fencer, a meer braggadochoe, a vapouring fellow.
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