aswagger

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adverb

Swaggering, with a proud or boastful swaying gait.

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Meanings

adverbaswagger (not comparable)
  1. not comparableSwaggering, with a proud or boastful swaying gait.

    Crisp little men aswagger with assets.

    1997, Don DeLillo, Underworld, Part 5, Chapter 4, p. 570
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    he tries to walk a-swagger with a military chest

    1911, Robert J.C. Stead, “The Son of Marquis Noddle”, in Songs of the Prairie, Toronto: William Briggs, page 55

    [she] looked at her husband, a-swagger with his hat on the back of his head and a laugh on his lips,

    1926, Wilbur Daniel Steele, “Out of the Wind”, in Urkey Island, New York: Harcourt, Brace, page 276

    The other is all aswagger as she brandishes / her implacable sword.

    2001, chapter 29, in David Tod Roy, transl., The Plum in the Golden Vase, volume 2, Princeton University Press, page 191

Origin

From a- + swagger.

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