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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
References
Anagrams
- waggers
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vaunt
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /v??nt/
- Rhymes: -??nt
- (some accents) IPA(key): /v??nt/
- Rhymes: -??nt
- (US) IPA(key): /v?nt/
- (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /v?nt/
Etymology 1
From Middle English vaunten, from Anglo-Norman vaunter, variant of Old French vanter, from Latin v?nus (“vain, boastful”).
Verb
vaunt (third-person singular simple present vaunts, present participle vaunting, simple past and past participle vaunted)
- (intransitive) To speak boastfully.
- 1829 — Washington Irving, Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada, chapter XC
- "The number," said he, "is great, but what can be expected from mere citizen soldiers? They vaunt and menace in time of safety; none are so arrogant when the enemy is at a distance; but when the din of war thunders at the gates they hide themselves in terror."
- 1829 — Washington Irving, Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada, chapter XC
- (transitive) To speak boastfully about.
- (transitive) To boast of; to make a vain display of; to display with ostentation.
Synonyms
- (speak boastfully): boast, brag
Derived terms
- vaunter
Translations
Noun
vaunt (plural vaunts)
- A boast; an instance of vaunting.
- 1904, G. K. Chesterton, The Napoleon of Notting Hill, Book II, chapter III
- He has answered me back, vaunt for vaunt, rhetoric for rhetoric.
- 1904, G. K. Chesterton, The Napoleon of Notting Hill, Book II, chapter III
Translations
Etymology 2
French avant (“before, fore”). See avant, vanguard.
Noun
vaunt (plural vaunts)
- (obsolete) The first part.
Anagrams
- Tuvan
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