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swag⋅ger

  [swag-er]
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–verb (used without object)
1. to walk or strut with a defiant or insolent air.
2. to boast or brag noisily.
–verb (used with object)
3. to bring, drive, force, etc., by blustering.
–noun
4. swaggering manner, conduct, or walk; ostentatious display of arrogance and conceit.
Origin:
1580–90; swag 1 + -er 6

Related forms:
swag⋅ger⋅er, noun

Synonyms:
1. See strut 1 .
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swag·ger   (swāg'ər)   
v.   swag·gered, swag·ger·ing, swag·gers

v.   intr.
  1. To walk or conduct oneself with an insolent or arrogant air; strut.
  2. To brag; boast.
v.   tr.
To browbeat or bully (someone).
n.  
  1. A swaggering movement or gait.
  2. Boastful or conceited expression; braggadocio.

[Probably frequentative of swag.]
swag'ger·er n., swag'ger·ing·ly adv.
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Swagger

Swag"ger\, n. A swagman. [Australia]

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.

Swagger

Swag"ger\, v. t. To bully. [R.] --Swift.

Swagger

Swag"ger\, n. The act or manner of a swaggerer.

He gave a half swagger, half leer, as he stepped forth to receive us. --W. Irving.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : swagger
Spanish: contonearse; pavonearse,
German: stolzieren,
Japanese: いばって歩く
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swagger 
1590, first recorded in Shakespeare ("Midsummer Night's Dream," III.i.79), probably a frequentative form of swag (v.). The noun is attested from 1725.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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