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SWAGGERING
swaggering, swashbuckling
(adjective) flamboyantly adventurous
disdainful, haughty, imperious, lordly, overbearing, prideful, sniffy, supercilious, swaggering
(adjective) having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy; “some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines”; “haughty aristocrats”; “his lordly manners were offensive”; “walked with a prideful swagger”; “very sniffy about breaches of etiquette”; “his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air”; “a more swaggering mood than usual”- W.L.Shirer
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
swaggering
present participle of swagger
Adjective
swaggering (comparative more swaggering, superlative most swaggering)
Boastful, proud, self-confident.
Synonyms
• proud
Antonyms
• mincing
Noun
swaggering (plural swaggerings)
Boastful, blustering behaviour.
Source: Wiktionary
SWAGGER
Swag"ger, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Swaggered; p. pr. & vb. n. Swaggering.] Etym: [Freq. of swag.]
1. To walk with a swaying motion; hence, to walk and act in a pompous, consequential manner. A man who swaggers about London clubs. Beaconsfield.
2. 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! Arbuthnot. To be great is not . . . to swagger at our footmen. Colier.
Swag"ger, v. t.
Definition: To bully. [R.] Swift.
Swag"ger, n.
Definition: The act or manner of a swaggerer. He gave a half swagger, half leer, as he stepped forth to receive us. W. Irving.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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