Swagger

Quick meaning: Swagger is a verb meaning To behave (especially to walk or carry oneself) in a pompous, superior manner.

Meaning

To behave (especially to walk or carry oneself) in a pompous, superior manner.

More Meanings

1. To boast or brag noisily; to bluster; to bully.
2. To walk with a swaying motion.
3. Confidence, pride.
4. A bold or arrogant strut.
5. A prideful boasting or bragging.
6. (Australia, New Zealand, now historical) Someone carrying a swag; a swagman.
7. (slang, archaic) Fashionable; trendy.

Example Sentences

To be great is not […] to swagger at our footmen.

It's the injustice… he is so unjust— whiskey-blind, swaggering home at five.

What hempen home-ſpuns haue we ſwaggering here, / So neere the Cradle of the Faierie Queene?

“They say there’s something wrong with our president!” Mr. Trump swaggered at his indoor Tulsa rally in June,[…]

Word Forms

• swaggers
• swaggering
• swaggered

Synonyms for swagger

Depending on context, synonyms include flaunt, preen, swank, boulevardier, exhibitionize, flamboast.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include strut, bluster, fashionable, browbeat, bully, groovy.

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