Meaning

(intransitive) Of a peacock or other fowl: to stand or walk stiffly, with the tail erect and spread out..

Definitions by Sense

1. (intransitive) Of a peacock or other fowl: to stand or walk stiffly, with the tail erect and spread out.
2. (intransitive, by extension, also figuratively) To walk haughtily or proudly with one's head held high.
3. (transitive, by extension) To walk across or on (a stage or other place) haughtily or proudly.
4. (intransitive, obsolete) Often followed by out: to protuberate or stick out due to being full or swollen; to bulge, to swell.
5. (transitive, obsolete) Often followed by out: to cause (something) to bulge, protrude, or swell.
6. (also figuratively) A step or walk done stiffly and with the head held high, often due to haughtiness or pride; affected dignity in walking.
7. (historical) An instrument for adjusting the pleats of a ruff.
8. (chiefly construction) A beam or rod providing support.

Example Sentences

Hark, hark, I heare, the ſtraine of ſtrutting Chanticlere cry cockadidle-dowe.

The pheasant strutteth about in the midst of flowers; / The turtle-dove cooeth, and the nightingale warbleth from the cypress.

He thought that whenne Thanksgyving came he'd looke soe payle & thynne, / He colde avoid ye usual role ye Turkye strutteth inne.

The pond was another favourite place to visit. Moorhens strutted from the neighbouring bushes, and a bevy of Muscovy ducks, a study in black, white and red, waddled from the farmyard hard by to enjoy a refreshing splash.

He strutted about the yard, thinking himself master of all he surveyed.

[O]h, I ſhould remember him: do's he not hold vp his head (as it were?) and ſtrut in his gate?

[...] I trow it is enough to make a man forswear the very mother that bore him, and to wish that he had never had one, when one is cooped up in a gloomy hole like this, to watch a door within which strutteth a jackanapes too proud to speak civil to those that approach him.

"With Mosaic cheers unglutted, / Stood he in this vast abode; / As thou struttest, so he strutted, / As thou crowest, so he crow'd— / He the well-beloved of Hansard, / Is he kin, sweet bird, to you?" / But the valiant bantam answer'd— / "Cock-a-doodle-doodle-doo!"

Word Forms

• struts
• strutting
• strutted
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• strut
• struttest
• struttedst
• strutteth
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• stroot
• strout
• more strut
• most strut

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