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scurry
English
Etymology
Perhaps from hurry-skurry, a reduplication of hurry.
Pronunciation
- enPR: sk??r(?)
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?sk??i/
- (General American) IPA(key): (with the "Hurry-furry" merger) /?sk??i/
- Rhymes: -?ri
- Hyphenation: scur?ry
Verb
scurry (third-person singular simple present scurries, present participle scurrying, simple past and past participle scurried)
- To run with quick light steps, to scamper.
- 1964, William Golding, Lord of the Flies
- Then the piglet tore loose from the creepers and scurried into the undergrowth.
- 1964, William Golding, Lord of the Flies
Synonyms
- (run with quick light steps): scamper
- (do things quickly): hurry, zoom; see also Thesaurus:rush
Derived terms
- ascurry
- scurry away
- scurry off
Translations
Noun
scurry (plural scurries)
- A dash.
- 1845, Sporting Magazine (volume 5, page 25)
- Found a fox in Deerstone, and after a great deal of music, and a scurry or two round the wood, went away over Whigford Down, but he was too far before them to make any more quick music […]
- 1845, Sporting Magazine (volume 5, page 25)
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swagger
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?swæ?.?/
- (US) IPA(key): /?swæ?.?/
- Rhymes: -æ??(r)
Etymology 1
A frequentative form of swag (“to sway”), first attested in 1590, in A Midsummer Night's Dream III.i.79:
- PUCK: What hempen homespuns have we swaggering here?
Verb
swagger (third-person singular simple present swaggers, present participle swaggering, simple past and past participle swaggered)
- To behave (especially to walk or carry oneself) in a pompous, superior manner.
- 1845, Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil
- a man who swaggers about London clubs
- 1845, Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil
- To boast or brag noisily; to bluster; to bully.
- 1698, Jeremy Collier, A Moral Essay upon Pride
- To be great is not […] to swagger at our footmen.
- 1724, Jonathan Swift, The Drapier’s Letters, Dublin and London, 1730, Letter 1, p. 14,[1]
- For the common Soldier when he goes to the Market or Ale-house will offer this Money, and if it be refused, perhaps he will SWAGGER and HECTOR, and Threaten to Beat the BUTCHER or Ale-Wife, or take the Goods by Force, and throw them the bad HALF-PENCE.
- 1698, Jeremy Collier, A Moral Essay upon Pride
- To walk with a swaying motion.
Derived terms
- swaggerer
- swaggeringly
- swagger it
- aswagger
Translations
Noun
swagger (countable and uncountable, plural swaggers)
- Confidence, pride.
- A bold or arrogant strut.
- A prideful boasting or bragging.
Translations
Adjective
swagger (comparative more swagger, superlative most swagger)
- (slang, archaic) Fashionable; trendy.
- 1899, Robert Barr, Jennie Baxter, Journalist
- It is to be a very swagger affair, with notables from every part of Europe, and they seem determined that no one connected with a newspaper shall be admitted.
- 15 March, 1896, Ernest Rutherford, letter to Mary Newton
- Mrs J.J. [Thomson] looked very well and was dressed very swagger and made a very fine hostess.
- 1908, Baroness Orczy, The Old Man in the Corner
- Mrs. Morton was well known for her Americanisms, her swagger dinner parties, and beautiful Paris gowns.
- 1899, Robert Barr, Jennie Baxter, Journalist
Etymology 2
Noun
swagger (plural swaggers)
- (Australia, New Zealand, historical) Synonym of swagman
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