Meanings
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of swagger
comparative more swaggering · superlative most swaggering
- Boastful, proud, self-confident.
Synonyms: boastful, proud, self-confident, confident, swashbuckling · Antonyms: mincing
plural swaggerings
- countableuncountableBoastful, blustering behaviour.
Since the return of the redoubtable head of the French people to Paris, I have been no less amused by his ill-digested boastings and swaggerings, than I was before delighted by the complete discomfiture of his ambitious plans.
1814, George Cruikshank, Robert Cruikshank, The Spirit of the Public Journals
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveBoastful, proud, self-confident.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivehaving or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy
adjectiveflamboyantly adventurous
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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