swaggering

Etymology

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of swagger

adj

  1. Boastful, proud, self-confident.

noun

  1. 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

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