strutting

[ struht-ing ]

adjective

1. walking or moving with a strut; walking pompously; pompous.

Other Words From

• strutting·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of strutting¹

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; strut ¹, -ing ²

Example Sentences

For one night only, queens of color take the stage for some “fabulous strutting, lip-synching and dancing.”

From Washington Blade

From Anna Wintour to Rita Ora to Claire Danes, stars are strutting their stuff in red this season.

From The Daily Beast

This seems like a bit too much bantam strutting, when the jury is literally still out in much of the country.

From The Daily Beast

Paul, strutting across the stage with a wireless microphone and wearing blue jeans, hit almost every other note.

From The Daily Beast

When Rita Ora relieved Zac Efron of his shirt at the MTV Movie Awards, his apparent surprise shifted quickly to strutting.

From The Daily Beast

And maybe that video of George W. Bush strutting around on an aircraft carrier in his flight suit.

From The Daily Beast

The skulking, strutting, mincing, hurrying forms that pass us and fade out into the night are now becoming characters.

From Project Gutenberg

Proudly strutting onward and crowing, Coquerico at last arrived at Rome, the place to which all roads lead.

From Project Gutenberg

He jumped up and made off without a word, but from the east window we watched him strutting down the brae.

From Project Gutenberg

There is a kind of rusticity in all those pompous verses; somewhat of a holiday shepherd strutting in his country buskins.

From Project Gutenberg

Their exuberant youthfulness, their strutting, and their obvious belief in themselves, made a strong appeal to her imagination.

From Project Gutenberg