'Swaggering' definitions:
Definition of 'swaggering'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy; "some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines"; "haughty aristocrats"; "his lordly manners were offensive"; "walked with a prideful swagger"; "very sniffy about breaches of etiquette"; "his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air"; "a more swaggering mood than usual"- W.L.Shirer [syn: disdainful, haughty, imperious, lordly, overbearing, prideful, sniffy, supercilious, swaggering]
adjective
Flamboyantly adventurous [syn: swaggering, swashbuckling]
Definition of 'Swaggering'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- A man who swaggers about London clubs. --Beaconsfield. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To boast or brag noisily; to be ostentatiously proud or vainglorious; to bluster; to bully. [1913 Webster]
- What a pleasant it is . . . to swagger at the bar! --Arbuthnot. [1913 Webster]
- To be great is not . . . to swagger at our footmen. --Colier. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'swaggering'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aweless,
- barefaced,
- blustering,
- blusterous,
- blustery,
- boisterous,
- bold,
- bold as brass,
- boldfaced,
- brassy,
- brazen,
- brazenfaced,
- bullying,
- hectoring,
- lost to shame,
- noisy,
- peacockish,
- peacocky,
- raging,
- ranting,
- raving,
- roistering,
- roisterous,
- rollicking,
- shameless,
- storming,
- strutting,
- swashbucklering,
- swashbuckling,
- swashing,
- tumultuous,
- unabashed,
- unblushing