Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To walk or conduct oneself with an insolent or arrogant air.
- intransitive verb To brag; boast.
- noun A swaggering manner of moving or behaving.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act or manner of a swaggerer; an insolent strut; a piece of bluster; boastfulness, bravado, or insolence in manner.
- noun Same as
swagman , 2. - To strut with a defiant or insolent air, or with an obtrusive affectation of superiority.
- To boast or brag noisily; bluster; bully; hector.
- To influence by blustering or threats; bully.
- Swell; all the rage.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To walk with a swaying motion; hence, to walk and act in a pompous, consequential manner.
- intransitive verb To boast or brag noisily; to be ostentatiously proud or vainglorious; to bluster; to bully.
- transitive verb rare To bully.
- noun Australia A swagman.
- noun The act or manner of a swaggerer.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To walk with a
swaying motion; hence, to walk and act in apompous ,consequential manner. - verb To
boast orbrag noisily ; to beostentatiously proud orvainglorious ; tobluster ; tobully . - noun
confidence ,pride - noun A
bold , orarrogant strut . - noun A
prideful boasting orbragging .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others
- adjective (British informal) very chic
- verb discourage or frighten with threats or a domineering manner; intimidate
- noun a proud stiff pompous gait
- verb act in an arrogant, overly self-assured, or conceited manner
- noun an itinerant Australian laborer who carries his personal belongings in a bundle as he travels around in search of work
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Brodeur and Luongo brim with confidence, while Fleury has to ask what, exactly, the English word "swagger" means.
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Thanks in part to the rapacious greed injected into war-fighting by the liberal use of for-profit armed "security" companies, a brutal, unaccountable and unreliable swagger is increasingly the face of the U.S. in conflict zones around the world.
Robert Greenwald: Profit-Chasing Guns-for-Hire Are Killing Us in Iraq and Afghanistan Robert Greenwald 2010
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A new call to swagger from the Hollywood left - USATODAY. com
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Thanks in part to the rapacious greed injected into war-fighting by the liberal use of for-profit armed "security" companies, a brutal, unaccountable and unreliable swagger is increasingly the face of the U.S. in conflict zones around the world.
Robert Greenwald: Profit-Chasing Guns-for-Hire Are Killing Us in Iraq and Afghanistan Robert Greenwald 2010
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He saw himself when he had been quite the hoodlum, wearing a "stiff-rim" Stetson hat and a square-cut, double-breasted coat, with a certain swagger to the shoulders and possessing the ideal of being as tough as the police permitted.
Chapter 27 2010
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Thanks in part to the rapacious greed injected into war-fighting by the liberal use of for-profit armed "security" companies, a brutal, unaccountable and unreliable swagger is increasingly the face of the U.S. in conflict zones around the world.
Robert Greenwald: Profit-Chasing Guns-for-Hire Are Killing Us in Iraq and Afghanistan Robert Greenwald 2010
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Thanks in part to the rapacious greed injected into war-fighting by the liberal use of for-profit armed "security" companies, a brutal, unaccountable and unreliable swagger is increasingly the face of the U.S. in conflict zones around the world.
Robert Greenwald: Profit-Chasing Guns-for-Hire Are Killing Us in Iraq and Afghanistan Robert Greenwald 2010
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The theatricality of Katherine's piety, Anne's glamour and Henry's swagger is all reflected in the gilt-edged wardrobe.
Theater review: Folger Theatre's 'Henry VIII' Peter Marks 2010
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Thanks in part to the rapacious greed injected into war-fighting by the liberal use of for-profit armed "security" companies, a brutal, unaccountable and unreliable swagger is increasingly the face of the U.S. in conflict zones around the world.
Robert Greenwald: Profit-Chasing Guns-for-Hire Are Killing Us in Iraq and Afghanistan Robert Greenwald 2010
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` ` Our team swagger is really high right now, '' Hawks forward Al Horford said.
USATODAY.com 2008
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