swashbuckle

verb

swash·​buck·​le ˈswäsh-ˌbə-kəl 

ˈswȯsh-

swashbuckled; swashbuckling ˈswäsh-ˌbə-k(ə-)liŋ 

ˈswȯsh-

intransitive verb

: to act the part of a swashbuckler

Examples of swashbuckle in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Instead, most are romantic stories about young lovers separated by fate, and the rest are swashbuckling adventures full of bandits and pirates. — Literary Hub, 30 June 2026

What happened to the swashbuckling mountaineer whose image had been plastered across the internet? — William Finnegan, New Yorker, 29 June 2026

By the 1980s, swashbuckling CEOs like Lee Iacocca had taken the Market Maker to a global scale — a man confident enough to write his autobiography and simply call it Iacocca. — Lewis Schiff, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026

The kind of experience these companies curate manages to be sumptuously luxe and transformatively meaningful—and offers plenty of swashbuckling tales to tell. — Adam Erace, Fortune, 24 May 2026

Word History

Etymology

back-formation from swashbuckler

First Known Use

1897, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for swashbuckle

• buckle
• chicle
• chuckle
• knuckle
• muckle
• suckle
• tical
• honeysuckle