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th a swaying motion; hence, to walk and act in a pompous, consequential manner. A man who swaggers about London clubs. Beaconsfield.

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

A lewd man; also, a bully. [Obs.] Dryden.

To talk with noisy violence; to swagger, as a turbulent or boasting person; to act in a noisy, tumultuous way; to play the bully; to storm; to rage. Your ministerial directors blustered like tragic tyrants. Burke.

One who, or that which, blusters; a noisy swaggerer.

Uttering noisy threats; noisy and swaggering; boisterous. "A blustering fellow." L'Estrange.

Characteristic of the street called the Bowery, in New York city; swaggering; flashy.

A braggart; a boaster; a swaggerer. Dryden.

To intimidate with threats and by an overbearing, swaggering demeanor; to act the part of a bully toward. For the last fortnight there have been prodigious shoals of volunteers gone over to bully the French, upon hearing the peace was just signing. Tatler.

To strut; to swagger; to look big, pert, or menacing. Addison.

erts; a controversial writer; a controversialist. Some controverters in divinity are like swaggerers in a tavern. B. Jonson.

A noisy boaster; a swaggering fellow. [Obs.] What cracker is this same that deafs our ears Shak.

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

A swaggering; vain boasting; ostentation; a bluster. Swift.

A noisy, swaggering, or worthless fellow; a rowdy. [Slang, U. S.]

Of or pertaining to Gascony, in France, or to the Gascons; also, braggart; swaggering. -- n.

Resembling a hector; blustering; insolent; taunting. "Hectorly, ruffianlike swaggering or huffing." Barrow.

Blustering; swaggering. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

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.

To move or play in a careless, swaggering manner, with a frolicsome air; to frolic; to sport; commonly in the form rollicking. [Colloq.] He described his friends as rollicking blades. T. Hook.