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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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sashay
English
Etymology
Verlan (or metathesis) form of French chassé, past participle of chasser (“chase”), from Latin capt?, frequentative of capi? (“I take”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?sæ?e?/, /sæ??e?/
- Homophone: sachet
- Rhymes: -æ?e?, -e?
Noun
sashay (plural sashays)
- A chassé.
- A sequence of sideways steps in a circle in square dancing.
Verb
sashay (third-person singular simple present sashays, present participle sashaying, simple past and past participle sashayed)
- (intransitive) To walk casually, showily or in a flirty manner; to strut, swagger or flounce.
- (intransitive) To chassé when dancing.
- (intransitive) To move sideways.
- 2015, Louise Taylor, Papiss Cissé and Jonny Evans spitting row mars Manchester United’s win over Newcastle (in The Guardian, 4 March 2015)[2]
- Games can hinge on the sort of controversial decision made by Taylor in the 10th minute. After Rivière collected Gabriel Obertan’s pass and sashayed beyond Daley Blind he drew the United centre- half into a rash, clumsy challenge but, puzzlingly, Taylor detected no penalty.
- 2015, Louise Taylor, Papiss Cissé and Jonny Evans spitting row mars Manchester United’s win over Newcastle (in The Guardian, 4 March 2015)[2]
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