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Definition: Swaggering |
SwaggeringAdjective1. Having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy; "some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines"; "haughty aristocrats"; "his lordly manners were offensive"; "walked with a prideful swagger"; "very sniffy about breaches of etiquette"; "his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air"; "shaggy supercilious camels"; "a more swaggering mood than usual"- W.L.Shirer. 2. Flamboyantly adventurous. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "swaggering" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Synonyms: SwaggeringSynonyms: disdainful (adj), haughty (adj), lordly (adj), prideful (adj), sniffy (adj), supercilious (adj), swashbuckling (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Insolence | Impudent, audacious, presumptuous, free and easy, devil-may-care, rollicking; jaunty, janty; roistering, blustering, hectoring, swaggering, vaporing; thrasonic, fire eating, "full of sound and fury ". |
Impertinence; sauciness; Adjective: flippancy, dicacity, petulance, procacity, bluster; swagger, swaggering; Verb: bounce; terrorism. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Swaggering |
| English words defined with "swaggering": autocratic ♦ bluster, bossy, bravado, Bug word, bullyboy ♦ disdainful, dominating ♦ Fanfaronade ♦ Gascon ♦ haughty, high-and-mighty, Huffcap ♦ lordly ♦ magisterial, Market beater ♦ peremptory, prideful ♦ Rollic ♦ sniffy, supercilious, Swashing. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "swaggering": Muscadins of Paris. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "swaggering": Swagger. (references) |
| "Swaggering" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 70.37% of the time. "Swaggering" is used about 27 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 70.37% | 19 | 80,337 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 25.93% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.7% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 27 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "swaggering"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | متبختر (strutting), متبجح (boastful, brag, braggart, bragging, gassy, windbag). (various references) | |
Chinese | 高视"步地走 (Swaggered). (various references) | |
Finnish | rehentelevä (blustery, overbearing). (various references) | |
French | vantard, fanfaronnades. (various references) | |
German | schwadronierende, schwadronierend. (various references) | |
Greek | λεονταρισμοί (boasting, bravado, hectoring). (various references) | |
Hungarian | fesztelenül fölényes. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 闊歩 (striding, strutting), 横行闊歩 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | おう"うかっぽ, かっぽ (striding, strutting, swagger). (various references) | |
Korean | 횡행. (various references) | |
Manx | froaishid (assumption, braggadocio, egoism). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aggeringsway.(various references) | |
Romanian | galant (chivalrous, courteous, gallant, gallantly, generous, gentle, polite), fanfaronadã (bluster, boast, braggadocio, bragging, fanfaronade, hot air, rodomontade, swagger, swank), cuceritor (conquering, conqueror, engaging, Victor). (various references) | |
Scottish | spailpeil (conceited, self-confident, vainglorious), spaideil (conceited as seen in gait, foppish). (various references) | |
Spanish | fanfarrón (bluff, blusterer, blustering, boaster, braggart, bragging, fanfaron, swashbuckler, windbag). (various references) | |
Swedish | stoltserande (swagger), skrytsam (boastful, flaunty, ostentatious, rodomontade, vainglorious). (various references) | |
Turkish | kasıntı (swagger), horozlanan, hava atan, fiyakalı (la-di-dah, Nobby, ostentatious, showy), dayılık taslayan. (various references) | |
Welsh | torsyth. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "swaggering": swaggeringly. (additional references) | |
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"Swaggering" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: saggering, slaggering, swagering. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "swaggering" (pronounced swa"gering) |
| 5 | -a" g er i ng | staggering. |
| 4 | -g er i ng | angering, auguring, beleaguering, fingering, hungering, lingering, mongering, rejiggering, triggering, warmongering. |
| 3 | -er i ng | answering, administering, altering, anchoring, backfiring, badgering, bantering, bartering, battering, belaboring, bettering, bewildering, bickering, blistering, blundering, blustering, bolstering, bordering, bothering, brokering, butchering, capturing, catering, censoring, centering, chartering, chattering, clamoring, clobbering, clustering, cluttering, coloring, configuring, conjuring, conquering, considering, cornering, countering, covering, cowering, culturing, deciphering, delivering, desiring, devouring, diapering, dickering, differing, discovering, disfavoring, disfiguring, dismembering, dithering, doctoring, doddering, embroidering, empowering, encountering, endangering, endeavoring, entering, factoring, faltering, fathering, favoring, feathering, featuring, festering, figuring, filibustering, filtering, flattering, flavoring, flickering, floundering, flowering, fluttering, fostering, foundering, fracturing, frittering, furthering, garnering, gathering, gerrymandering, gesturing, glimmering, glittering, glowering, grandfathering, guttering, hammering, hampering, hankering, harboring, hectoring, hindering, hollering, honoring, hovering, hunkering, injuring, inquiring, laboring, laundering, lawyering, layering, lecturing, lettering, levering, littering, loitering, lowering, lumbering, majoring, maneuvering, manufacturing, massacring, mastering, maundering, meandering, measuring, mentoring, metering, minoring, mirroring, mitering, monitoring, mothering, motoring, murdering, murmuring, mustering, muttering, nattering, neighboring, neutering, nonmanufacturing, numbering, nurturing, offering, ordering, outnumbering, pampering, pandering, papering, partnering, peppering, perjuring, pestering, petering, philandering, picturing, pilfering, plastering, plundering, pondering, posturing, powdering, powering, pressuring, proffering, prospering, puncturing, puttering, quivering, recapturing, reconsidering, recovering, rediscovering, reentering, registering, remembering, rendering, reoffering, reordering, requiring, restructuring, rewiring, rupturing, savoring, scampering, scattering, scouring, sculpturing, sequestering, severing, shattering, sheltering, shimmering, shivering, shouldering, showering, shuddering, shuttering, simmering, slaughtering, slithering, slobbering, slumbering, smattering, smoldering, smothering, snickering, sobering, soldering, soldiering, souring, spattering, spiering, splintering, sponsoring, sputtering, squandering, structuring, stuttering, suffering, surrendering, sweltering, tailoring, tampering, tapering, teetering, tempering, tendering, thundering, tinkering, torturing, tottering, towering, transpiring, tutoring, uncovering, unflattering, unwavering, ushering, uttering, venturing, wagering, wallpapering, wandering, watering, wavering, weathering, whimpering, whispering, withering, wondering, Wuthering, zippering. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-g-g-i-n-r-s-w" | |
-1 letter: saggering. | |
-2 letters: gearings, greasing, resawing, snaggier, swagging, swearing, wagering. | |
-3 letters: ageings, earings, earwigs, erasing, gaggers, gainers, gangers, gearing, gingers, gnawers, granges, naggers, naggier, raggies, ragging, reagins, regains, reginas, saggier, sagging, searing, serging, seringa, signage, snigger, swagger, swaggie, swaging, swigger, swinger, waggers, wagging, wearing, wingers. | |
-4 letters: ageing, aggers, aggies, agings, angers, answer, arisen, arsine, aweing. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-g-g-i-n-r-s-w" | |
+2 letters: swaggeringly. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Rhymes 8. Anagrams | 9. Bibliography |
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