swaggering

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swag·ger

(swăg′ər)

intr.v. swag·gered, swag·ger·ing, swag·gers

1. To walk or conduct oneself with an insolent or arrogant air.

2. To brag; boast.

A swaggering manner of moving or behaving.

[Probably frequentative of swag.]

swag′ger·er n.

swag′ger·ing·ly adv.

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swag•ger•ing

(ˈswæg ər ɪŋ)

adj.

characteristic of a person who swaggers; blustering.

[1590–1600]

swag′ger•ing•ly, adv.

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Adj.	1.	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 haughty, imperious, prideful, sniffy, supercilious, disdainful, lordly, overbearing proud - feeling self-respect or pleasure in something by which you measure your self-worth; or being a reason for pride; "proud parents"; "proud of his accomplishments"; "a proud moment"; "proud to serve his country"; "a proud name"; "proud princes"
	2.	swaggering - flamboyantly adventurous swashbuckling adventuresome, adventurous - willing to undertake or seeking out new and daring enterprises; "adventurous pioneers"; "the risks and gains of an adventuresome economy"

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swaggering

[ˈswægərɪŋ] ADJ [person] → fanfarrón, jactancioso; [gait] → importante, jactancioso

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

swaggering

adj

gait, manner → forsch

(= boastful) → großtuerisch, angeberisch

n → Großtuerei f, → Angeberei f; his swaggering about → sein Herumstolzieren nt

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

swaggering

[ˈswæg/ərɪŋ]

1. adj (gait) → spavaldo/a; (gesture) → da fanfarone/a
a swaggering fellow → un fanfarone

2. n → fanfaronate fpl

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

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"Ah, we blokies kin lick deh hull damn Row," said a child, swaggering.

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George had an air at once swaggering and melancholy, languid and fierce.

It made him half mad to see the calm way in which George, flapping his napkin, and with a swaggering bow, opened the door for the ladies to leave the room; and filling himself a glass of wine, smacked it, and looked his father full in the face, as if to say, "Gentlemen of the Guard, fire first." The old man also took a supply of ammunition, but his decanter clinked against the glass as he tried to fill it.

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I saw, besides, many old sailors, with rings in their ears, and whiskers curled in ringlets, and tarry pigtails, and their swaggering, clumsy sea- walk; and if I had seen as many kings or archbishops I could not have been more delighted.

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And to add to these swaggering ways he was a trifle of a musician, and played the guitar with such a flourish that some said he made it speak; nor did his accomplishments end here, for he was something of a poet too, and on every trifle that happened in the town he made a ballad a league long.

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At anchor a schooner looks better; she has an aspect of greater efficiency and a better balance to the eye, with her two masts distributed over the hull with a swaggering rake aft.

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But I looked over and I saw Efe just swaggering about!

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