swagger

noun

No English definition recorded for this entry.

No English definition recorded for this entry.

Pronunciation: /ˈswæɡ.ə/ / /ˈswæɡ.ɚ/

Etymology: A frequentative form of swag (“to sway”), first attested in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595), see quotations.

Fashionable; trendy.
“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.”

Etymology: Etymology tree English swag English -er English swagger From swag + -er.

Someone carrying a swag; a swagman.
“There were now more swaggers passing down Ferry Street and more coming to ask for food […].”
“She looked down in her half-dreaming state and thought they might be swaggers. There were lots of them that year, camped out on the riverbank netting for whitebait, then fanning out around the streets selling their catch door to door.”

Etymology: A frequentative form of swag (“to sway”), first attested in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595), see quotations.

To behave (especially to walk or carry oneself) in a pompous, superior manner.
“What hempen home-ſpuns haue we ſwaggering here, / So neere the Cradle of the Faierie Queene?”
“He is a political humbug, the greatest of all humbugs; a man who swaggers about London clubs and consults solemnly about his influence, and in the country is a nonentity.”
To boast or brag noisily; to bluster; to bully.
“To be great is not […] to swagger at our footmen.”
“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.”
To walk with a swaying motion.
“It's the injustice… he is so unjust— whiskey-blind, swaggering home at five.”