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swaggering en · ADJ
Meanings
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Boastful, proud, self-confident.
Forms
Antonyms
mincing
Deriveds
swaggeringly
Synonyms
swashbuckling · self-confident · proud · boastful · confident
swaggering en · NOUN
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) Boastful, blustering behaviour.
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.
1814, George Cruikshank, Robert Cruikshank, The Spirit of the Public Journals:
Forms
swaggering en · VERB
Meanings
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(form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of swagger