Swagger

Definition: Swagger

Swagger

Adjective

1. (British informal) very chic; "groovy clothes".

Noun

1. A proud stiff pompous gait.

Verb

1. To walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others: "He strut around like a rooster in a hen house.".

2. Discourage or frighten with threats or a domineering manner; intimidate.

3. Act in an arrogant, overly self-assured, or conceited manner.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "swagger" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1598. (references)

Note: Swagger \Swag"ger\, intransitive verb [imperfect & past participle. Swaggered; Swaggering.]. (references)

Literature

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Swagger

Boasting

Verb: boast, make a boast of, brag, vaunt, Puff, show off, flourish, crake, crack, trumpet, strut, swagger, vapor; blague, blow, four-flush, bluff.

Insolence

Verb: be insolent; Adjective: bluster, vapor, swagger, swell, give oneself airs, snap one's fingers, kick up a dust; swear; (affirm); rap out oaths; roister. arrogate; assume, presume; make bold, make free; take a liberty, give an inch and take an ell.

Impertinence; sauciness; Adjective: flippancy, dicacity, petulance, procacity, bluster; swagger, swaggering; Verb: bounce; terrorism.

Pride

Verb: be proud; Adjective: put a good face on; look one in the face; stalk abroad, perk oneself up; think no small beer of oneself; presume, swagger, strut; rear one's head, lift up one's head, hold up one's head; hold one's head high, look big, take the wall, " bear like the Turk no rival near the throne ", carry with a high hand; ride the high horse, mount on one's high horse; set one's back up, bridle, toss the head; give oneself airs; (assume); boast.

Crosswords: Swagger

Manliness is not all swagger and mountain climbing (Tea and Sympathy; writing credit: Robert Anderson)

Captain Swagger (1928)

The Male Swagger (1999)

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Books

• All That Swagger (Sirius Quality Paperback Series) (reference)

• Roughnecks, rolling stones & rouseabouts : with an anthology of early swagger literature (reference)

• Swagger country (reference)

• The Swagger Portrait: Grand Manner Portraiture in Britain from Van Dyck to Augustus John, 1630-1930 (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• American Swagger (reference)

• Swagger (reference)

• That Swagger, That Thing! (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

A genuine man keeps himself at an equal distance from swagger and roguery

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "swagger": swagger cane ♦ swagger stick. Additional references.

Beginning with "swagger": swagger-coat, swagger-stick.

Albanian

krekosje (display, inflation, prance, stalk, strut, swank), kapardisje (assumption, hoity toity, prance, strut), kapardisem (bloat, bluster, flaunt, strut), fryhem (belly, bloat, boil up, distend, fill out, heave, pout, surge, swell). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كره (abhor, abominate, aversion, be offensive, be repugnant, be repulsive, become hateful, coerce, compel, constrain, despise, detest, disfavor, disfavour, disincline, dislike, drive, force, hate, hating, loathe), ‏تيه (arrogance, labyrinth, pride, vainglory), ‏تعجرف (puff, strut), ‏تبختر (loll, lope, mince, parade, ponce about, prance, strut, waddle), ‏تبجح (bluster, blustery, boast, boastfulness, brag, bravado, crow, gasconade, jactitation, plume, rant, shoot a line, swank, swell, talk big, vaporize, vaunt), ‏إنتزع (conquer, draw, exact, extort, extract, get smth. off one's hands, grab, snatch, tear, tear out, twitch, wrest, wring, yank), ‏إختيال (strut), ‏إختال (strut, swank, swash), ‏أنيق (bijou, chic, classy, coxcomb, dainty, dapper, dashing, dinky, dressy, elegant, exclusive, fine, gallant, genteel, good looking, gracious, jaunty, ladylike, mincing, natty, neat, nice, perky, personable, posh, presentable, rich, saucy, seemly, sharp, smart, smug, sophisticated, spick and span, sporting, sportsmanlike, sporty, spruce, stylish, suave, swell, tailor made, taut, tidy, tight, trim, well groomed). (various references)

Bulgarian 

самохвалство (bluster, boast, boastfulness, bounce, brag, braggadocio, braggery, bragging, bull, fanfaronade, jactation, ostentation, rodomontade, splurge, vainglory, vaunt), хваля се (boast, bounce, brag, flourish, glory, rodomontade, splurge, talk big, talk tall, vapor, vapour, vaunt), ходя наперено, наперена походка (stalk), прекалена самоувереност (overconfidence), перчене (bravado, parade, peacockery, swank), перча се (flounce, parade, prance, prank, rodomontade, roister, ruffle, splurge, swash), държа се арогантно. (various references)

Chinese 

跩 (waddle), 昂首�"步. (various references)

Czech

vychloubat se (bluster, brag, vaunt), pyšnì si vykraèovat, pyšná chùze, naparování, chvástat se (boast, brag, crow, fanfaronade), chvástání (boast, brag, jazz, rodomontade). (various references)

Farsi 

مغرور (Bigheaded, Haughty, Jaunty, Overbearing, Presumptuous, Proud, Snob, Snobbish, Stuffy, Supercilious, Uppish, Vain), کبرفروشی , خودفروشانه گام زدن , خودستاءی (Vainglory), باتکبرراه رفتن (Brag, Prance). (various references)

Finnish

rehvastella (bluster), rehennellä (put on airs, show off), pöyhistellä (strut), kerskailla (brag, broast, swank), kehuskella (bluster). (various references)

French

se vanter (swank about smth.), se pavaner, vertige, plastronner, obliger, marcher d'un air plastronnant, marcher d'un air important, fanfaronner, fanfaron, chic (swell, swollen), arracher, évincer. (various references)

German

stolzieren (be proud, display, flounce, parade, sashay, stalk, strut), schwadronieren (bluster, rant), schwadroniere. (various references)

Greek 

κορδόνομαι, κομπάζω (bluster, brag, flaunt, rant, rodomontade, vaunt), αλαζονεύομαι. (various references)

Hebrew 

י�"ירות (arrogance, conceit, haughtiness, pride, vainness), ל�"לך בי�"ירות, ל�"שויץ (brag, swank, talk big). (various references)

Hungarian

felvágás (crack, cutting, frills, rant, show-off, side, snootiness, splurge, strut, swank). (various references)

Indonesian

menggadang (be arrogant, large sieve). (various references)

Italian

spadroneggiare (domineer), pavoneggiarsi (prance, strut, strut about). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

濶歩 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

かっぽ (striding, strutting, swaggering). (various references)

Manx

jannoo froaish (swank), froaish (brag, egotism, panache, swank). (various references)

Pig Latin

aggersway.(various references)

Portuguese

vangloriar-se (boast, brag, cackle, vaunt), presunção (airs, arrogance, assumption, assurance, conceit, concetto, coxcombry, daring, pragmatism, presumption, pretension, puppyism, self-assurance, self-conceit, self-importance, self-sufficiency, self-support, surmise, swank, vainglory, vanity), pavonear-se (coquet, parade, peacock, prance, prank, strut), jactar-se (boast, brag, rodomontade, vaunt), jactância (ostentation, rodomontade, vainglory, vaunt), fanfarronada (fanfaronade, gasconade, hokum, hot air, leg pull, panache, rodomontade, roistering), bravata (braggery, bravado, rodomontade), bazofiar (vaunt), bazófia (boasting, bragging, leavings, leftovers, vaunt), andar todo emproado. (various references)

Romanian

se fuduli (bounce), se fãli (pique oneself), lãudãroşenie (bluster, boast, boastfulness, bounce, brag, braggadocio, bragging, hot air, vaunt, yarn), fudulie (arrogance, bumptiousness, haughtiness), fanfaronadã (bluster, boast, braggadocio, bragging, fanfaronade, hot air, rodomontade, swaggering, swank), fãli, dichisit (dapper, dolled up, Spruce, swell, trimmed), cã scos din cutie (Spruce), împãuna. (various references)

Russian 

развязность, чванство (lifemanship, peacockery, self-assumption), выступать....важная поступь, важный вид. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zavežljaj (bundle, swag), šepuriti se (peacock, prance, strut), šepurenje (cockiness, ostentation, peacockery, prance, strut). (various references)

Spanish

pavoneo (strut, strutting), pavonearse (deceive, delude, parade, Peacock, prance, preen oneself, show off, show out, strut), jactancia (boast, boastfulness, boasting, brag, jactation, vaunt), contoneo (waddle), contonearse (strut). (various references)

Swedish

skryta (boast, boast of, brag, rant, rodomontade, vaunt), skryt (blague, boast, brag, cockalorum, fanfaronade, jactation, rodomontade, swank, vaunt), luffare (bum, hobo, swagman, tramp, vagabond, vagrant). (various references)

Thai

เ�"ินกร่าง, การวางโต, คุยโว (boast). (various references)

Turkish

kurum (airs, conceit, corporation, establishment, foundation, haughtiness, institute, institution, pose, shop, smut, soot, vanity), kasıntı (swaggering), kasılmak (attitudinize, be stretched tight, contract, set, strain, tighten), kasıla kasıla yürümek (prance), kırıtmak (behave coquettishly, mince), horozlanmak, havalı (airy, dashing, flash, flatulent, hot air, jaunty, La-di-da, la-di-dah, nifty, Nobby, ostentatious, pneumatic, posh, rakish, show off, showy, stylish, swanky, swell, swish, tonish), hava atmak (crow, cut a dash, flaunt, give oneself airs, make a great display, make a show of, prank, put on airs, put on an act, put on dog, put on side, queen it over, show off, splurge, swank), dayılanmak (huff), dayı (dey, friend at court, maternal uncle, rapscallion, rowdy, swaggerer, uncle), caka satmak (put on an act, put on side, show off), caka (air, airs, gimmickry, ostentation, panache, show off, showing off), şık (alternative, chic, choice, classy, dandyish, dapper, dashing, doggy, dressy, elegant, fashionable, flash, go-go, in the ton, jaunty, mod, nifty, posh, rakish, saucy, sharp, sleek, smart, smooth, smug, snappy, snazzy, spicy, spiffing, spiffy, sporty, streamlined, stylish, swanky, swell, swish, thoroughbred, tidy, tonish, trig, up-market), artist (artist, ham, swaggerer), çalım (air, airs, feint, ostentation, pass, side, strut, strutting, swank, trick). (various references)

Ukrainian

чванитися (Peacock, plume oneself, puff), нарядний (brave, chic, dink, dinky, nutty, ornate, spiffed, spiffing, well-dressed), елегантний (becoming, chic, debonair, delicate, elegant, genteel, graceful, nice, nifty, primp, silk stocking, smirk, spiffed, swell, well-tailored), походжати з бундючним виглядом, пихатий вигляд. (various references)

Vietnamese 

vẻ phóng khoáng tính hợp thời trang, vẻ lịch sự, vẻ bảnh bao (crispness, stylishness), thái độ nghênh ngang, dáng điệu nghênh ngang. (various references)

Welsh

torsythu (strut). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "swagger": swaggered, swaggerer, swaggerers, swaggering, swaggeringly, swaggers. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Swagger" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: saggar, Sagger, shagger, slagger, snagger, swagel, swager, swaget, swagey, swagged. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: waggers.

-1 letter: aggers, eggars, gagers, sagger, seggar, swager, wagers, wagger.

-2 letters: agers, agger, eggar, gager, gages, gears, rages, resaw, sager, sarge, sawer, sewar, swage, sware, swear, wager, wages, wares, wears.

-3 letters: ager, ages, ares, arse, awes, ears, eggs, eras, ergs, gaes, gage, gags, gars, gear, grew, rage, rags, rase, raws, regs, sage, sear, sera, swag.

+1 letter: swaggers.

+2 letters: swaggered, swaggerer, waggeries, waggoners.

+3 letters: swaggerers, swaggering.

+4 letters: beggarweeds.

+5 letters: swaggeringly.