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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]
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 Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]
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. 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.From WordNet (r) 2.0 : [ wn ]
swaggering adj 1: 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"; "shaggy supercilious camels"; "a more swaggering mood than usual"- W.L.Shirer [syn: disdainful, haughty, lordly, prideful, sniffy, supercilious] 2: flamboyantly adventurous [syn: swashbuckling]From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
swaggering a. boastful, proud, self-confident. n. Boastful, blustering behaviour. vb. (present participle of en swagger nocat=1)From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]
swaggering a. boastful, proud, self-confident. n. Boastful, blustering behaviour. vb. (present participle of en swagger nocat=1)From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]
swaggering a. boastful, proud, self-confident. n. Boastful, blustering behaviour. vb. (present participle of en swagger nocat=1)From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]
swaggering a. boastful, proud, self-confident. n. Boastful, blustering behaviour. vb. (present participle of en swagger nocat=1)From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 : [ freedict:eng-ara ]
Swaggering /swˈaɡəɹɪŋ/ التبخترFrom English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]
swaggering /swˈaɡəɹɪŋ/ AngebereiFrom English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ], großspuriges Auftreten
swaggering /swˈaɡəɹɪŋ/ schwadronierend see: swagger, swaggered, swaggers, swaggeredFrom English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]
swaggering /swˈaɡəɹɪŋ/ stolzierend, großspurig, angeberischFrom English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]
swaggering /swˈaɡəɹɪŋ/ stolzierend, großtund, großspurig auftretend see: swagger, swaggeredFrom English - Modern Greek XDXF/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.1.1 : [ freedict:eng-ell ]
swaggering /swˈaɡəɹɪŋ/ λεονταρισμοίFrom English-Hungarian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 : [ freedict:eng-hun ]
swaggering /swˈaɡəɹɪŋ/ fesztelenül fölényesFrom IPA:en_US : [ IPA:en_US ]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 : [ moby-thesaurus ]/ˈswæɡɝɪŋ/
33 Moby Thesaurus words for "swaggering": aweless, barefaced, blustering, blusterous, blustery, boisterous, bold, bold as brass, boldfaced, brassy, brazen, brazenfaced, bullying, hectoring, lost to shame, noisy, peacockish, peacocky, raging, ranting, raving, roistering, roisterous, rollicking, shameless, storming, strutting, swashbucklering, swashbuckling, swashing, tumultuous, unabashed, unblushing