swanning

Verb (1)

swan (third-person singular simple present swans, present participle swanning, simple past and past participle swanned)

1. (intransitive) To travel or move about in an aimless, idle, or pretentiously casual way.
   • He swans around that stinking office in his expensive clothes that are a little too tight for comfort, he swans around that stinking office without a care in the world.2010, Lee Rourke, The Canal, Melville House Publishing, →ISBN, unnumbered page

Verb (2)

swan (third-person singular simple present swans, present participle swanning, simple past and past participle swanned)

1. (US, colloquial, dialectal) To declare (chiefly in first-person present constructions).
   • "Well, I swan, man, I had a better opinion of you than that."1907 December, J. D. Archer, “Foiling an eavesdropper”, in Telephony, volume 14, page 345

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