swashbuckling

Questions about swashbuckling

What does swashbuckling mean?

swashbuckling means "flamboyantly reckless and boastful behavior". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in swashbuckling?

swashbuckling has 3 syllables: swash-buc-kling. The stress falls on "swash". In IPA it is /ˈswɑʃˌbʌklɪŋ/.

What is another word for swashbuckling?

Close synonyms include swaggering. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is swashbuckling a common word?

swashbuckling is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.