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swaggered

swaggered is the simple past and past participle of swagger.

Meaning of swagger

Verb

swagger (third-person singular simple present swaggers, present participle swaggering, simple past and past participle swaggered)

  1. To behave (especially to walk or carry oneself) in a pompous, superior manner.
    • What hempen home-ſpuns haue we ſwaggering here, / So neere the Cradle of the Faierie Queene?c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First...
  2. To boast or brag noisily; to bluster; to bully.
    • To be great is not […] to swagger at our footmen.1698, Jeremy Collier, A Moral Essay upon Pride
  3. To walk with a swaying motion.
    • It's the injustice… he is so unjust—
      whiskey-blind, swaggering home at five.1959, Robert Lowell, “To Speak of Woe That Is in Marriage”, in Life Studies

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Phrases with swaggered

Questions about swaggered

What is swaggered the simple past and past participle of?
Swaggered is the simple past and past participle of swagger.

Words near swaggered in the dictionary

  1. swagger it
  2. swagger portrait
  3. swagger portraits
  4. swagger stick
  5. swagger sticks
  6. swaggered
  7. swaggered it
  8. swaggerer
  9. swaggerers
  10. swaggerific
  11. swaggering

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