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swagger
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Swagman \Swag"man\, n. A bushman carrying a swag and traveling on foot; -- called also swagsman, swagger, and swaggie.
Once a jolly swagman sat beside a billabong
Under the shade of a coolibah tree.
And he sang as he sat and watched his billy boiling,
`Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?'
--[Waltzing
Matilda, an
Australian
tune.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, "to strut in a defiant or insolent manner;" earliest recorded usages are in Shakespeare ("Midsummer Night's Dream," "2 Henry IV," "King Lear"), probably a frequentative form of swag (v.) "to sway." Meaning "to boast or brag" is from 1590s. Related: Swaggered; swaggering. The noun is attested from 1725.
Wiktionary
n. confidence, pride. vb. 1 To walk with a swaying motion; hence, to walk and act in a pompous, consequential manner. 2 To boast or brag noisily; to be ostentatiously proud or vainglorious; to bluster; to bully.
WordNet
adj. (British informal) very chic; "groovy clothes" [syn: groovy]
v. to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others; "He struts around like a rooster in a hen house" [syn: ruffle, prance, strut, sashay, cock]
discourage or frighten with threats or a domineering manner; intimidate [syn: browbeat, bully]
act in an arrogant, overly self-assured, or conceited manner [syn: bluster, swash]
Wikipedia
Swagger is the first album by the Celtic punk band Flogging Molly, mixed by Steve Albini. It was released in 2000.
Swagger is the third album from Scottish rock band Gun. It features their most successful single, a cover of " Word Up!", originally recorded by Cameo.
The album produced four UK Top 40 singles between July 1994 and April 1995: "Word Up!" (#8), "Don't Say It's Over" (#19), "The Only One" (#29) and "Something Worthwhile" (#39).
A swagger or swagga is a swaggering gait.
Swagger also may refer to:
- Swagger (software), a specification for defining the interface of a REST web service
- Surname:
- Jack Swagger (born 1982), American professional wrestler
- Bob Lee Swagger, fictional character created by Stephen Hunter
- Swagger Creek, a river in the United States
- Swagger stick, a riding crop carried by a uniformed person as a symbol of authority
Swagger is the second studio album by Canadian Inuk rock singer Lucie Idlout. It was released on February 19, 2009 by Sun Rev. Records.
"Swagger" is a cassette EP and the second release by the then British trio No Man Is An Island, which would later rename and be known simply as No-Man.
The cassette was made for the band to sell at concerts. It was later described by the band themselves as "very much a transitional release, with the band at an uncomfortable position between brash synthpop, abrasive art rock and the lusher atmospheres which would later become a No-Man trademark."
Some promo versions also included "The Girl From Missouri" (the earlier self-titled debut release). "Bleed" was featured in two subsequent versions - one on the 'Sweetheart Raw' EP and one on ' Heaven Taste'.
The song "Flowermouth" has no link with the Flowermouth album besides the title (although parts of the song were recycled for "Lovecry" on their 1993 debut LP Loveblows & Lovecries - A Confession). "Life Is Elsewhere" comes from Tim Bowness' former band Plenty (later renamed Samuel Smiles).
Usage examples of "swagger".
For some years, in spite of a loud voice, a large presence, an aggressive swagger, and an implacable manner, he had been an undistinguished member of most of the existing aeronautical associations.
In the hot blaze of police flares, three Chicano youths swaggered down the ruined street.
Leopold and Loeb, Capone and Dillinger, Gacy and Gein, Speck and Bundy, and the rest of the parolees from oblivion strolled away, a swaggering gait, leaving the cornfield, hitting the dark road that passed outside the farm, a short walk that would take them into the heart of a town called Plum Creek.
The scant regulars who still patronized the Broken Spar looked up from their drinks in a pickled haze, the silent misery on their faces yielding to fear as Gell MarBoreth, Knight of the Lily, swaggered in.
Boastful of his own iniquity, swaggering in his wickedness, fatuous with self-love, he recounted his deeds with gusto and with particularity.
I was taking a walk in the Tuileries, not thinking any more of my female extortioner, when a small man, with his hat cocked on one side of his head and a large nosegay in his button-hole, and sporting a long sword, swaggered up to me and informed me, without any further explanation, that he had a fancy to cut my throat.
Wherever he went, Kesk liked to stride arrogantly, his head bare and sneering tanarukk face on display, his battle-axe in his hand, and several of his henchmen swaggering along behind him.
Obviously unchastened, Lache swaggered off to the buttery-kitchen, leaving Joshua to drag the heavy tables into place, which he did with the ease of moving chessmen.
Over this regalia he battened an armor of ridged lamellae in which he swaggered for half a day until the heat became unbearable and, rather irresponsibly, he abandoned his outer casing under a tree like some drab cicada reaching adulthood.
This, then, this flamboyantly swaggering man was Mauger de Cotaine of Often whom all in the shire credited with the sheltering of the men who constantly raided their property.
He acknowledged a conspiratorial wink from Noddy Gallagher as he swaggered, with Muriel on his arm, from the hall.
I neither swaggered nor skulked, but went from cell to dining hall to my prison job with the unhurried deliberation of an ordinary man engaged upon his daily business, and I resisted, thanks to my hostility toward every sort of authority, therapy sessions designed to turn me inward, to coerce an analysis of the family difficulties and street pressures that had nourished my criminality, with the idea of liberating me from my past.
Anthony Nathan, as he obnoxiously swaggered around the front of the courtroom.
The Judge Pyncheon of the tale is also a masterly study of swaggering black-hearted respectability, and then, in addition to all the poetry of his style, and the charm of his haunted air, Hawthorne favours us with a brave conclusion of the good sort, the old sort.
Catriona had thought they must be the few middle risk health professionals or food administrators who worked here, but according to Dot, most of them were high riskers too, just ones with different tastes and standards, people who felt uncomfortable in the glaring, swaggering streets in which they were forced to live.