Swagger

/ˈswæɡ.ə/ · verb

Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

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

He is a political humbug, the greatest of all humbugs; a man who swaggers about London clubs and consults solemnly about his influence, and in the country is a nonentity.

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

For the common Soldier when he goes to the Market or Ale-house will offer this Money, and if it be refused, perhaps he will SWAGGER and HECTOR, and Threaten to Beat the BUTCHER or Ale-Wife, or take the Goods by Force, and throw them the bad HALF-PENCE.

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

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

After spending so much of the season looking upwards, the swashbuckling style and swagger of early season Spurs was replaced by uncertainty and frustration against a Norwich side who had the quality and verve to take advantage

He steered with no end of a swagger while you were by; but if he lost sight of you, he became instantly the prey of an abject funk, and would let that cripple of a steamboat get the upper hand of him in a minute.

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Word Forms

• swaggers
• swaggering
• swaggered
• more swagger
• most swagger

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