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noun

Swagger n. The act or manner of a swaggerer. "He gave a half swagger, half leer, as he stepped forth to receive us."

Swagger n. A swagman. (Australia)

verb

Swagger v. t. To bully. (R.)

Swagger v. i. (past & past part. swaggered; pres. part. swaggering)

To walk with a swaying motion; hence, to walk and act in a pompous, consequential manner. "A man who swaggers about London clubs."

To boast or brag noisily; to be ostentatiously proud or vainglorious; to bluster; to bully. "What a pleasant it is... to swagger at the bar!" "To be great is not... to swagger at our footmen."

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Etymology of 'Swagger'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Swagger" Quotes from Famous Books

... with a swagger, graded according to the number of his homicides, and a nod of recognition from him, was sufficient to make an humble admirer happy for the rest of ...

— Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches - An Autobiography • Edwin Eastman

... 'talents' and put him in training. He was a low, ignorant sailor; could scarcely write his own name; but he had biceps and a thick head. Didn't know when he was whipped. I can see him yet, as he used to look, with his giant shoulders and his swagger as he stepped into the ring. There was no nonsense about him—or his fist; could break a board with that. And how the shouts used to go up; 'the pet!' 'a quid on the pet!' 'ten bob on the stars and stripes!' meaning the costume he wore. Oh, he was a favorite in Camden Town! But ...

— Half A Chance • Frederic S. Isham

... deferential, but by no means genteel; nor had it any hint of the roystering joviality of a sailor. More than anything else his gait, in its sedate unobtrusiveness, seemed to me utterly at variance with the rolling swagger which we conventionally associate ...

— Aliens • William McFee

... Georg Herwegh also joined us, and I was delighted to meet him one day at Kolatschek's lodgings. The vicissitudes which had brought him to Zurich came to my knowledge afterwards in a somewhat offensive and aggressive manner. For the present, Herwegh put on an aristocratic swagger and gave himself the airs of a delicately nurtured and luxurious son of his times, to which a fairly liberal interpolation of French expletives at least added a certain distinction. Nevertheless, there was something about his person, with ...

— My Life, Volume II • Richard Wagner

... tea and the officers like to carry their canes and swagger sticks with them "over the top" into battle. A brave, unpretending man, who likes his own ways and wishes to be allowed to follow them and who is willing to fight and die that others also may be free—such is the English Tommy. With ...

— Winning a Cause - World War Stories • John Gilbert Thompson and Inez Bigwood

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