Swagger
['swægə] or ['swæɡɚ]
Definition
(verb.) act in an arrogant, overly self-assured, or conceited manner.
Typist: Rosanna--From WordNet
Definition
(v. i.) To walk with a swaying motion; hence, to walk and act in a pompous, consequential manner.
(v. i.) To boast or brag noisily; to be ostentatiously proud or vainglorious; to bluster; to bully.
(v. t.) To bully.
(n.) The act or manner of a swaggerer.
Editor: Meredith
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. Bluster, bully, vapor, brag, be insolent.
Checker: Mario
Definition
v.i. to swing the body in a blustering defiant way: to brag noisily to bully.—n. boastfulness: insolence of manner.—adj. (slang) very fashionable.—n. Swagg′erer.—adj. and n. Swagg′ering.—adv. Swagg′eringly.
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Examples
- They were scheming to outdo one another, to rob weaker contemporaries, to destroy rivals, so that they might for a brief interval swagger. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The soldiers who like to wear uniforms, who like to strut and swagger and wear red-and-black scarves. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- He sat himself down with a threatening swagger, and said: 'Give me a bottle of wine. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- While the twain are faithful to their post, Mr. George strides through the streets with a massive kind of swagger and a grave-enough face. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Very kind of him, the stiff-backed prig, with his dandified airs and West End swagger. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- A little later a rakish young workman, with a goatee beard and a swagger, lit his clay pipe at the lamp before descending into the street. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- It was mere swagger and challenge; but in this particular, as in many others, blustering assertion goes for proof, half over the world. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- He swaggered up a path as if as if the place belonged to him, and we heard his loud, confident peal at the bell. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- They swaggered up and down the almost deserted pier, and hurled curses, obscenity, and stinging sarcasms at our crew. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Important elements in German life struggled against this swaggering new autocracy. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Armitage and Ramsden smoking, Malone swaggering, your uncle sneering, Mr. Sykes sipping a cordial, and Moore himself in his cold man-of-business vein! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He was, altogether, as roystering and swaggering a young gentleman as ever stood four feet six, or something less, in the bluchers. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- By swaggering could I never thrive, For the rain it raineth every day. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Who would not cut the very best swaggering Stanhope for a Molyneux? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Well, it belongs to a stepson of mine, said Raffles, adjusting himself in a swaggering attitude. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- George had an air at once swaggering and melancholy, languid and fierce. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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