swagger
verb (used without object)
to walk or strut with a defiant or insolent air.
swaggerer
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a word derived from
swagger.
Example Sentences
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Anthony Howell's Trigorin, the destructive celebrity author, is unusually convincing: not a swaggerer or a smirker but a lethally hesitant presence.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 18, 2012
A smarmy swaggerer in an orange suit, he proposes to take her off to the rich mean streets of New York.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is just such a swaggerer as contemporaries have described old Ben to be.
From The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 by Charles Lamb
It was just such a swaggerer of a sea as that first one that Zip had dived into which did the trick, only, as the Flossie was going faster, the impact was somewhat more severe.
From Sea-Hounds by Lewis R. Freeman
Touching the former it was often said, that "he'd die where the bird flies"—between heaven and earth; on matrimony, that there seldom was a swaggerer among the girls but came to the ground at last.
From Phelim Otoole's Courtship and Other Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by William Carleton
