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swaggered


Meanings
  • Having a confident and arrogant attitude towards others.

    - "He walked into the room with a swaggered attitude."
    - "Despite her success, she maintained a swaggered demeanor towards her colleagues."

Rhymes
Words rhyming with swaggered
swaggered , feathered , leathered , neathered , rhetered , seathered , sweatered , teathered , veathered
Homophones
Words having the same pronunciation but different meanings, origins, or spelling,
  1. swaggered, swaggering, swaggerer, swagger, swagger on, swaggering along, swaggeringly, swaggerishly, swaggering about, swaggering over, swaggering under, swaggering to, swaggering with, swaggering against, swaggering between


Variants
List of all variants of swaggered that leads to same result
swagger , swaggered , swaggerer , swaggerers , swaggering , swaggeringly , swaggers
Etymology
origin and the way in which meanings have changed throughout history.

Swaggered comes from the Old English word swaggerian, which meant 'to boast or brag'. This word eventually evolved into the Modern English word swaggered, which describes someone who has a confident and arrogant attitude towards others.


Quotes
Quotes by authors and personalities
  1. Sometimes he sauntered through the streets of the old town. He looked with awe at the students of the corps, their cheeks gashed and red, who "swaggered" about in their coloured caps.

    - W. Somerset Maugham,{it}Of Human Bondage{/it},1915
  2. He copped a plea, ratted out a dozen no-neck pals and "swaggered" off to prison, leaving South Beach temporarily without a pied piper.

    - Carl Hiaasen,{it}New York Times Book Review{/it},22 Feb. 2009
  3. So it is a fight rather than an argument, really—a fight over complexity versus ease, a fight that mostly mimics gang war, which is not so much a vigorous instance of manly bloodletting (though it is that too) as a dustup over prestige: who has the prior right to "swagger" in public.

    - Cynthia Ozick,{it}Harper's{/it},April 2007

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