swaggering

English

Verb

swaggering

1. present participle and gerund of swagger

Adjective

swaggering (comparative more swaggering, superlative most swaggering)

1. Boastful, proud, self-confident.

   Synonyms: boastful, proud, self-confident, confident, swashbuckling

   Antonym: mincing

Noun

swaggering (countable and uncountable, 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.