Word Meanings - SWAGGER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Etym: 1. To walk with a swaying motion; hence, to walk and act in a pompous, consequential manner. A man who swaggers about London clubs. Beaconsfield. 2. To boast or brag noisily; to be ostentatiously proud or vainglorious; to bluster; to bully.

Additional info about word: SWAGGER

Etym: 1. To walk with a swaying motion; hence, to walk and act in a pompous, consequential manner. A man who swaggers about London clubs. Beaconsfield. 2. To boast or brag noisily; to be ostentatiously proud or vainglorious; to bluster; to bully. What a pleasant it is . . . to swagger at the bar! Arbuthnot. To be great is not . . . to swagger at our footmen. Colier.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SWAGGER)

• Brae
• Boast
• vaunt
• swagger
• bully
• Hector Bully
• annoy
• bluster
• boast
• harass
• threaten
• tease
• worry

Related words: (words related to SWAGGER)

• TEASER
  A jager gull. (more info) 1. One who teases or vexes.
• HECTORISM
  The disposition or the practice of a hector; a bullying.
• HARASS
  To fatigue; to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts; esp., to weary by importunity, teasing, or fretting; to cause to endure excessive burdens or anxieties; -- sometimes followed by out. harassed with a long and wearisome march. Bacon. Nature
• VAUNT
  To boast; to make a vain display of one's own worth, attainments, decorations, or the like; to talk ostentatiously; to brag. Pride, which prompts a man to vaunt and overvalue what he is, does incline him to disvalue what he has. Gov. of Tongue.
• BOASTFUL
  Given to, or full of, boasting; inclined to boast; vaunting; vainglorious; self-praising. -- Boast"ful*ly, adv. -- Boast"ful*ness, n.
• TEASE
  To tear or separate into minute shreds, as with needles or similar instruments. 4. To vex with importunity or impertinence; to harass, annoy, disturb, or irritate by petty requests, or by jests and raillery; to plague. Cowper. He . . . suffered
• VAUNTER
  One who vaunts; a boaster.
• HECTORLY
  Resembling a hector; blustering; insolent; taunting. "Hectorly, ruffianlike swaggering or huffing." Barrow.
• THREATEN
  1. To utter threats against; to menace; to inspire with apprehension; to alarm, or attempt to alarm, as with the promise of something evil or disagreeable; to warn. Let us straitly threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in this name.
• ANNOY
  disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to tease; to ruffle in mind; to vex; as, I was annoyed by his remarks. Say, what can more our tortured souls annoy Than to behold, admire, and lose our joy Prior. 2. To molest,
• BLUSTERINGLY
  In a blustering manner.
• ANNOYANCE
  1. The act of annoying, or the state of being annoyed; molestation; vexation; annoy. A deep clay, giving much annoyance to passengers. Fuller. For the further annoyance and terror of any besieged place, they would throw into it dead bodies.
• ANNOYOUS
  Troublesome; annoying. Chaucer.
• ANNOYING
  That annoys; molesting; vexatious. -- An*noy"ing*ly, adv.
• BLUSTEROUS
  Inclined to bluster; given to blustering; blustering. Motley.
• SWAGGERER
  One who swaggers; a blusterer; a bully; a boastful, noisy fellow. Shak.
• BULLY; BULLY BEEF
  Pickled or canned beef. (more info) boil. See Boil, v. The word bouilli was formerly commonly used on the
• BOASTING
  The act of glorying or vaunting; vainglorious speaking; ostentatious display. When boasting ends, then dignity begins. Young.
• AVAUNTOUR
  A boaster. Chaucer.