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aswagger

aswagger adverb: swaggering, with a proud or boastful swaying gait.

Adverb

aswagger (not comparable)

  1. Swaggering, with a proud or boastful swaying gait.
    • he tries to walk a-swagger with a military chest1911, Robert J.C. Stead, “The Son of Marquis Noddle”, in Songs of the Prairie, Toronto: William Briggs, page 55
    • [she] looked at her husband, a-swagger with his hat on the back of his head and a laugh on his lips,1926, Wilbur Daniel Steele, “Out of the Wind”, in Urkey Island, New York: Harcourt, Brace, page 276

Origin of aswagger

From a- + swagger.

Questions about aswagger

What does aswagger mean?
Aswagger means swaggering, with a proud or boastful swaying gait.
What part of speech is aswagger?
Aswagger is an adverb.

Words near aswagger in the dictionary

  1. asw
  2. ASW carrier
  3. ASW carriers
  4. Aswad
  5. aswaddumization
  6. aswagger
  7. aswail
  8. Aswan
  9. aswang
  10. aswangs
  11. Aswarby

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