swaggering

English

Verb

swaggering

  1. present participle and gerund of swagger

Adjective

swaggering (comparative more swaggering, superlative most swaggering)

  1. Boastful, proud, self-confident.
    Synonym: proud
    Antonym: mincing

Noun

swaggering (countable and uncountable, plural swaggerings)

  1. Boastful, blustering behaviour.
    • 1814, George Cruikshank, Robert Cruikshank, The Spirit of the Public Journals:
      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.
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