swashbuckling• Ultra-confident, dashing and with a swashbuckling air he is the archetypal head boy or captain of the rugby team.• He has everything a swashbucklinghero needs - except good looks.• The Westons' brief life stories would have done credit to the swashbucklingimagination of a Stevenson, Scott or Dumas.• But there is no shifting the swashbuckling McInerney.• a swashbucklingship captain
Originswashbuckling
(1600-1700)swashbuckler“noisy boastful fighter”((16-20 centuries)), from swash“to wave around or hit noisily”((15-20 centuries)) (probably from the sound) + buckler