Swagger \Swag"ger\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Swaggered; p. pr. &
vb. n. Swaggering.] [Freq. of swag.]
1. To walk with a swaying motion; hence, to walk and act in a
pompous, consequential manner.
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A man who swaggers about London clubs.
--Beaconsfield.
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2. To boast or brag noisily; to be ostentatiously proud or
vainglorious; to bluster; to bully.
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What a pleasant it is . . . to swagger at the bar!
--Arbuthnot.
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To be great is not . . . to swagger at our footmen.
--Colier.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
swaggering
adj 1: having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of
those one views as unworthy; "some economists are
disdainful of their colleagues in other social
disciplines"; "haughty aristocrats"; "his lordly
manners were offensive"; "walked with a prideful
swagger"; "very sniffy about breaches of etiquette";
"his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air";
"shaggy supercilious camels"; "a more swaggering mood
than usual"- W.L.Shirer [syn: disdainful, haughty,
lordly, prideful, sniffy, supercilious]
2: flamboyantly adventurous [syn: swashbuckling]
WordNet (r) 2.0
33 Moby Thesaurus words for "swaggering":
aweless, barefaced, blustering, blusterous, blustery, boisterous,
bold, bold as brass, boldfaced, brassy, brazen, brazenfaced,
bullying, hectoring, lost to shame, noisy, peacockish, peacocky,
raging, ranting, raving, roistering, roisterous, rollicking,
shameless, storming, strutting, swashbucklering, swashbuckling,
swashing, tumultuous, unabashed, unblushing
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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