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A bully; a hector; a swaggerer; an empty boaster. [R.] Dryden.

A native of Gascony; a boaster; a bully. See Gasconade.

A bully; a bravo; a ruffian; an assassin. [Obs.] Milton.

A bully; a blustering, turbulent, insolent, fellow; one who vexes or provokes.

The disposition or the practice of a hector; a bullying. [R.]

To treat with insolence and arrogance; to chide or rebuke with insolence; to hector; to bully. You must not presume to huff us. Echard.

A blusterer; a bully. [Obs.] -- a.

A bully; a blusterer. Hudibras.

To bluster; to swagger; to bully; to be bold, noisy, vaunting, or turbulent. I have a roisting challenge sent amongst The dull and factious nobles of the Greeks. Shak.

A rude fellow; a coarse bully; a rowdy. In the rough, in an unwrought or rude condition; unpolished; as, a diamond or a sketch in the rough. Contemplating the people in the rough. Mrs. Browning.

One who ruffles; a swaggerer; a bully; a ruffian. Assaults, if not murders, done at his own doors by that crew of rufflers. Milton.

A bullying and violent person; a braggart; a swashbuckler. [Obs.] That flock of stout, bragging rushbucklers. Robynson (More's Utopia).

A bravo; a bully; a duelist. Ld. Lytton.

To boast or brag noisily; to be ostentatiously proud or vainglorious; to bluster; to bully. What a pleasant it is . . . to swagger at the bar! Arbuthnot. To be great is not . . . to swagger at our footmen. Colier.

One who swaggers; a blusterer; a bully; a boastful, noisy fellow. Shak.

A bully or braggadocio; a swaggering, boastful fellow; a swaggerer. Milton.

A swashbuckler; a bully; a roiserer. [Obs.] Shak.