Definitions for swaggering
Overview of verb swagger
The verb swagger has 3 senses? (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (2) tittup, swagger, ruffle, prance, strut, sashay, cock
(to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others; "He struts around like a rooster in a hen house")
2. browbeat, bully, swagger
(discourage or frighten with threats or a domineering manner; intimidate)
3. swagger, bluster, swash
(act in an arrogant, overly self-assured, or conceited manner)
Overview of adj swaggering
The adj swaggering has 2 senses? (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (2) disdainful, haughty, imperious, lordly, overbearing, prideful, sniffy, supercilious, swaggering
(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)
2. swaggering, swashbuckling
(flamboyantly adventurous)
