dashism

English

Etymology

dash +‎ -ism

Noun

dashism (uncountable)

1. (rare, colloquial, dated) The character of making ostentatious or blustering parade or show.
   • 1788, Vicesimus Knox, Winter Evenings:

     He must fight a duel before his claim to […] dashism can be universally allowed.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “dashism”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• shadism