strutting
[struht-ing]
- walking or moving with a strut; walking pompously; pompous.
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Origin of strutting
strut1
[struht]
- to walk with a vain, pompous bearing, as with head erect and chest thrown out, as if expecting to impress observers.
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- the act of strutting.
- a strutting walk or gait.
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- strut one's stuff, to dress, behave, perform, etc., one's best in order to impress others; show off.
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Origin of strut1
before 1000; Middle English strouten to protrude stiffly, swell, bluster, Old English strūtian to struggle, derivative of *strūt (whence Middle English strut strife)
Synonyms
See more synonyms for on Thesaurus.com1. parade, flourish. Strut and swagger refer especially to carriage in walking. Strut implies swelling pride or pompousness; to strut is to walk with a stiff, pompous, seemingly affected or self-conscious gait: A turkey struts about the barnyard. Swagger implies a domineering, sometimes jaunty, superiority or challenge, and a self-important manner: to swagger down the street.
strut2
[struht]
- any of various structural members, as in trusses, primarily intended to resist longitudinal compression.
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- to brace or support by means of a strut or struts.
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Origin of strut2
First recorded in 1565–75; obscurely akin to strut1
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Examples from the Web for strutting
Contemporary Examples
From Anna Wintour to Rita Ora to Claire Danes, stars are strutting their stuff in red this season.
Paul, strutting across the stage with a wireless microphone and wearing blue jeans, hit almost every other note.
When Rita Ora relieved Zac Efron of his shirt at the MTV Movie Awards, his apparent surprise shifted quickly to strutting.
And maybe that video of George W. Bush strutting around on an aircraft carrier in his flight suit.
Want To Know What America Thinks of Itself? Watch Jack Ryan on Wall StreetAndrew Romano
January 18, 2014
There he found a street full of young kids he recognized, their hoodies up, strutting round a burning car.
Historical Examples
One of the duties of these strutting heroes was to maintain silence.
A Literary History of the English PeopleJean Jules Jusserand
Manager Strutt, and Manager Butt, were strutting and butting each other.
Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II.Pierce Egan
See, the inspector is strutting just below us in the smithy.
The Innocence of Father BrownG. K. Chesterton
My vanity did not express itself in strutting or wagging the head.
The Promised LandMary Antin
He has a kind of strutting dignity, and is tall by walking on tiptoe.
The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine VolumesSamuel Johnson
strut
- (intr) to walk in a pompous manner; swagger
- (tr) to support or provide with struts
- strut one's stuff informal to behave or perform in a proud and confident manner; show off
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- a structural member used mainly in compression, esp as part of a framework
- an affected, proud, or stiff walk
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Word Origin
C14 strouten (in the sense: swell, stand out; C16: to walk stiffly), from Old English strūtian to stand stiffly; related to Low German strutt stiff
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Word Origin and History for strutting
strut
v.
"walk in a vain, important manner," Old English strutian "to stand out stiffly," from Proto-Germanic *strut- (cf. Danish strutte, German strotzen "to be puffed up, be swelled," German Strauß "fight"), from PIE root *ster- "strong, firm, stiff, rigid" (see sterile). Originally of the air or the attitude; modern sense, focused on the walk, first recorded 1510s. Cognate with Old English ðrutung "anger, arrogance" (see throat). To strut (one's) stuff is black slang, first recorded 1926, from strut as the name of a dance popular from c.1900.
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