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Swashbuckling   /swˈɑʃbˌəklɪŋ/   Listen
Swashbuckling

noun
1.
Flamboyantly reckless and boastful behavior.
adjective
1.
Flamboyantly adventurous.  Synonym: swaggering.





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"Swashbuckling" Quotes from Famous Books



... was the Gussie who stood before me now. Self-confidence seemed to ooze from the fellow's every pore. His face was flushed, there was a jovial light in his eyes, the lips were parted in a swashbuckling smile. And when with a genial hand he sloshed me on the back before I could sidestep, it was as if I had been ...
— Right Ho, Jeeves • P. G. Wodehouse
... of the old type of Hussar was a rowdy, quarrelsome, swashbuckling, tippler, but also brave to the point of foolhardiness; for the rest, he was completely ignorant of anything that was not connected with his horse, his arms and his duties in the face of the enemy. Pertelay the younger, on the other hand, was quiet, ...
— The Memoirs of General the Baron de Marbot, Translated by - Oliver C. Colt • Baron de Marbot


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