strut
verb (used without object)
to walk with a vain, pompous bearing, as with head erect and chest thrown out, as if expecting to impress observers.
strutter
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a word derived from
strut.
Example Sentences
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This ballet shows the bold side, the brainy city strutter in Robbins.
From Time Magazine Archive
To his friends General MacArthur is a dashing officer of the best Army type; to his critics he is an overdressed, supersensitive, ambitious strutter.
From Time Magazine Archive
Calvin Gray's ebullience, his dash, his magnificence of demeanor, could be nothing less than an affront to such a man; Nelson could see in him only a pompous braggart, an empty, arrogant strutter.
From Flowing Gold by Rex Ellingwood Beach
He is, in brief, a hollow and incompetent creature, a strutter and poseur, a popinjay, a pretty one....
From Damn! A Book of Calumny by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken
So hale a strutter as Aladdin could not lack for bonamies.
From A Christmas Garland by Sir Max Beerbohm
