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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SWAG'GERING, ppr. Blustering; boasting noisily.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: 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"; "a more swaggering mood than usual"- W.L.Shirer [syn: disdainful, haughty, imperious, lordly, overbearing, prideful, sniffy, supercilious, swaggering]
2: flamboyantly adventurous [syn: swaggering, swashbuckling]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Swagger Swag"ger, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Swaggered; p. pr. & vb. n. Swaggering.] [Freq. of swag.] 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.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Bravado, bluster, gasconade, flourish, fanfaronade.

Moby Thesaurus

aweless, barefaced, blustering, blusterous, blustery, boisterous, bold, bold as brass, boldfaced, brassy, brazen, brazenfaced, bullying, hectoring, lost to shame, noisy, peacockish, peacocky, raging, ranting, raving, roistering, roisterous, rollicking, shameless, storming, strutting, swashbucklering, swashbuckling, swashing, tumultuous, unabashed, unblushing