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Swaggered

Swagger \Swag"ger\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Swaggered; p. pr. & vb. n. Swaggering.] [Freq. of swag.]

  1. To walk with a swaying motion; hence, to walk and act in a pompous, consequential manner.

    A man who swaggers about London clubs.
    --Beaconsfield.

  2. To boast or brag noisily; to be ostentatiously proud or vainglorious; to bluster; to bully.

    What a pleasant it is . . . to swagger at the bar!
    --Arbuthnot.

    To be great is not . . . to swagger at our footmen.
    --Colier.

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swaggered

vb. (en-past of: swagger)

Usage examples of "swaggered".

He swaggered, Helva thought angrily, looking not the least bit worse for his absence.

Encouraged, Damia continued as the Coonie swaggered back and forth, demandingly.

He swaggered down the gangplank, knowing she waited to speak to him, Lord Toric.

Abdul scuttled around before him and swaggered, waving his arms imperiously for the clearing of a way.

Thal swaggered, displaying coins he had picked from the pockets of the men the stun-pistols had disabled.

They waited until he had swaggered along the sidewalk to where the cab sat.

Big Heintz and the skinny one Raphael had named Little Hitler dismounted and swaggered over to the car.

The Angels still swaggered back and forth to the bar for more beer or to the men's room to relieve themselves with their cycle chains and chukka sticks dangling from their belts and their eyes flat and menacing, but their mood was no longer one of incipient riot.

He swaggered in through the tent flap, anxious to be cured without losing the arm, anxious, too, to show he set no store by me.

As it was they swaggered behind me, and I did my best never to push them beyond their instincts.

A man, a silver-masked soldier yet very proud, spiteful in triumph, swaggered into the hall—their commander, thinking himself their Javhovor.

He was unmistakably a chieftain, and he swaggered as he came, very sure of his ground.

Juggling Katie, he swaggered out, slamming the screen door behind him, .

He turned, spoke a word or two to his visitors, swaggered back into the scarlet and yellow salon.

The crowd cheered some more like British crowds does and I felt plenty uplifted as I swaggered down the street.