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Webster 1828 Edition


Swaggering

SWAG'GERING

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ppr.
Blustering; boasting noisily.

Definition 2024


swaggering

swaggering

English

Verb

swaggering

  1. present participle of swagger

Adjective

swaggering (comparative more swaggering, superlative most swaggering)

  1. Boastful, proud, self-confident.

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Noun

swaggering (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.