Sekirov Dictionary

swagger

UK /ˈswæɡ.ə/US /ˈswæɡ.ɚ/

noun 4
verb 3
adjective 1
forms 5

noun4

A bold or arrogant strut.
Confidence, pride.
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A prideful boasting or bragging.
- Too often we honor swagger and bluster and the wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their lives on the shattered dreams of others. — 1968
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(Australia, New-Zealand) Someone carrying a swag; a swagman.
- There were now more swaggers passing down Ferry Street and more coming to ask for food […]. — 1982

verb3

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To behave (especially to walk or carry oneself) in a pompous, superior manner.
- What hempen home-spuns haue we swaggering here, / So neere the Cradle of the Faierie Queene? — 1595
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To walk with a swaying motion.
- It's the injustice… he is so unjust— whiskey-blind, swaggering home at five. — 1959
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To boast or brag noisily; to bluster; to bully.
- To be great is not […] to swagger at our footmen. — 1698

adjective1

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(slang, no longer used) Fashionable; trendy.
- 15 March, 1896, Ernest Rutherford, letter to Mary Newton Mrs J.J. [Thomson] looked very well and was dressed very swagger and made a very fine hostess.

forms

swaggered · swaggering · swaggers · more swagger · most swagger

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