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strut

1  [struht] ,verb, strut⋅ted, strut⋅ting, noun
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–verb (used without object)
1. to walk with a vain, pompous bearing, as with head erect and chest thrown out, as if expecting to impress observers.
–noun
2. the act of strutting.
3. a strutting walk or gait.
—Idiom
4. strut one's stuff, to dress, behave, perform, etc., one's best in order to impress others; show off.
Origin:
bef. 1000; ME strouten to protrude stiffly, swell, bluster, OE strūtian to struggle, deriv. of *strūt (whence ME strut strife)

Related forms:
strutter, noun

Synonyms:
1. parade, flourish. Strut and swagger refer especially to carriage in walking. Strut implies swelling pride or pompousness; to strut is to walk with a stiff, pompous, seemingly affected or self-conscious gait: A turkey struts about the barnyard. Swagger implies a domineering, sometimes jaunty, superiority or challenge, and a self-important manner: to swagger down the street.
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strut

2  [struht] ,noun, verb, strut⋅ted, strut⋅ting.
–noun
1. any of various structural members, as in trusses, primarily intended to resist longitudinal compression. See diags. under king post, queen post.
–verb (used with object)
2. to brace or support by means of a strut or struts.
Origin:
1565–75; obscurely akin to strut 1
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strut   (strŭt)   
v.   strut·ted, strut·ting, struts

v.   intr.
To walk with pompous bearing; swagger.
v.   tr.

  1. To display in order to impress others. Sometimes used with out: Don't strut out your resume until you have more accomplishments to list.

    1. To provide (a structure) with a strut or struts.

    2. To brace or separate with or as if with a strut.

n.  

  1. A pompous, self-important gait.

  2. A structural element used to brace or strengthen a framework by resisting longitudinal compression.


[Middle English strouten, to stand out, from Old English strūtian, to stand out stiffly; see ster-1 in Indo-European roots.]
strut'ter n., strut'ting·ly adv.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Word Origin & History

strut  (v.)
"walk in a vain, important manner," O.E. strutian "to stand out stiffly," from P.Gmc. *strut- (cf. Dan. strutte, Ger. strotzen "to be puffed up, be swelled," Ger. Strauß "fight"), from PIE base *ster- "strong, firm, stiff, rigid" (see sterile). Originally of the air or the attitude; modern sense, focused on the walk, first recorded 1518. Cognate with O.E. ðrutung "anger, arrogance" (see throat). To strut (one's) stuff is black slang, first recorded 1926, from strut as the name of a dance popular from c.1900.

strut  (n.)
"supporting brace," 1587, perhaps from strut (v.), or a cognate word in O.N. or Low Ger. (cf. Low Ger. strutt "rigid"); ultimately from P.Gmc. *strutoz-, from root *strut- (see strut (v.)).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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