Swagger
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
swagger
adj 1: (British informal) very chic; "groovy clothes" [syn:
{groovy}, {swagger}]
n 1: an itinerant Australian laborer who carries his personal
belongings in a bundle as he travels around in search of
work [syn: {swagman}, {swagger}, {swaggie}]
2: a proud stiff pompous gait [syn: {strut}, {prance},
{swagger}]
v 1: to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to
impress others; "He struts around like a rooster in a hen
house" [syn: {tittup}, {swagger}, {ruffle}, {prance},
{strut}, {sashay}, {cock}]
2: discourage or frighten with threats or a domineering manner;
intimidate [syn: {browbeat}, {bully}, {swagger}]
3: act in an arrogant, overly self-assured, or conceited manner
[syn: {swagger}, {bluster}, {swash}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Swagman \Swag"man\, n.
A bushman carrying a swag and traveling on foot; -- called
also {swagsman}, {swagger}, and {swaggie}.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Once a jolly swagman sat beside a billabong
Under the shade of a coolibah tree.
And he sang as he sat and watched his billy boiling,
`Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?' --[Waltzing
Matilda, an
Australian
tune.]
[PJC]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Swagger \Swag"ger\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Swaggered}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Swaggering}.] [Freq. of swag.]
1. To walk with a swaying motion; hence, to walk and act in a
pompous, consequential manner.
[1913 Webster]
A man who swaggers about London clubs.
--Beaconsfield.
[1913 Webster]
2. To boast or brag noisily; to be ostentatiously proud or
vainglorious; to bluster; to bully.
[1913 Webster]
What a pleasant it is . . . to swagger at the bar!
--Arbuthnot.
[1913 Webster]
To be great is not . . . to swagger at our footmen.
--Colier.
[1913 Webster]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
163 Moby Thesaurus words for "swagger":
amble, arrogance, barge, bluff, bluster, bluster and bluff,
blustering, boast, boastfulness, boasting, bombast, bounce,
bowl along, brag, braggadocio, braggartism, bragging, brandish,
bravado, brave show, bully, bullying, bundle, bustle, clump, cock,
conceit, crow, cut a swath, display, drag, draw the longbow,
drifter, droop, fanfaronade, flaunt, flounce, flourish, flurry,
fluster, foot, footslog, fuss, gait, gallop, gasconade, gasconism,
halt, hector, hectoring, heroics, hippety-hop, hitch, hobble, hobo,
hop, intimidate, intimidation, jactation, jactitation, jog, jolt,
jump, limp, lock step, lumber, lunge, lurch, mince, mincing steps,
ostentation, out-herod Herod, pace, paddle, parade, peacock,
peacockery, peacockishness, peg, piaffe, piaffer, plod,
pontificate, prance, prink, puff, rack, rage, rant, rave, roadster,
rodomontade, roister, roll, rollick, sashay, saunter, scuff,
scuffle, scuttle, shack, shamble, show, show off, shuffle, side,
sidle, single-foot, skip, slang, slink, slither, slog, slouch,
slowness, speak for Buncombe, splutter, sputter, stagger, stalk,
stamp, step, stomp, storm, straddle, straggle, stride, stroll,
strolling gait, strut, strutting, stump, sundowner, swaggering,
swagman, swank, swash, swashbuckle, swashbucklering, swashbucklery,
swashbuckling, swell, swing, tittup, toddle, totter, traipse,
traveler, tread, trip, trot, trudge, vanity, vapor, vaunt,
vauntery, vaunting, velocity, waddle, walk, wamble, wiggle,
wobble
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