strutter

English

Etymology

From Middle English stroutere; equivalent to strut +‎ -er.

Noun

strutter (plural strutters)

1. someone who struts
   • 1901, Charles Kingsley, Two Years Ago, Volume I‎:

     Which is the boaster, the strutter, the bedizener of his sinful carcase with feathers and beads, fox-tails and bears' claws,--the brave, or his poor little squaw?

   • 1917, Irving Bacheller, The Light in the Clearing‎:

     First there's the Grimshaw o' greed--swinish, heartless greed--the other is the Grimshaw o' vanity--the strutter, with sword at belt, who would have men bow or flee before him."

   • 1991 February 11, Eric R. Rofes, “My Life As A Queer”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 29, page 11:

     I imagined Queer Nation as a collection of bizarros who celebrated every outlawed characteristic in our one nation under Helms. I imagined nose rings and strutters and opinionated students and men in lipstick. Sounded like my kind of crowd.

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

strutter

1. present of strutte