Meanings
present singular third person swaggers it · participle present swaggering it · participle past swaggered it · past swaggered it
- archaicTo swagger about; to move about or carry oneself in a proud, superior, or pompous manner.
[…]and there is no reason why I should not leave this wretched hole at once and go to one of the best hotels and swagger it!
1895, Marie Corelli, The Sorrows of Satan: or The Strange Experience of One Geoffrey Tempest, Millionaire […], 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, published 1896, →OCLC, page 181 more example
Other women in war did not try to retain it, but seem to have welcomed the chance to put on male attire and swagger it in breeches;
1984, Country Life, volume 175
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