swagger

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To behave (especially to walk or carry oneself) in a pompous, superior manner.

   “What hempen home-ſpuns haue we ſwaggering here, / So neere the Cradle of the Faierie Queene?”

2. fiil To boast or brag noisily; to bluster; to bully.

   “To be great is not […] to swagger at our footmen.”

3. fiil To walk with a swaying motion.

   “It's the injustice… he is so unjust— whiskey-blind, swaggering home at five.”

4. isim Confidence, pride.

   “After spending so much of the season looking upwards, the swashbuckling style and swagger of early season Spurs was replaced by uncertainty and frustration against a Norwich side who had the quality and verve to take advantage”

5. isim A bold or arrogant strut.

   “He steered with no end of a swagger while you were by; but if he lost sight of you, he became instantly the prey of an abject funk, and would let that cripple of a steamboat get the upper hand of him in a minute.”

6. isim A prideful boasting or bragging.

   “Too often we honor swagger and bluster and the wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their lives on the shattered dreams of others.”

7. sıfat Fashionable; trendy.

   “It is to be a very swagger affair, with notables from every part of Europe, and they seem determined that no one connected with a newspaper shall be admitted.”

8. isim Someone carrying a swag; a swagman.

   “There were now more swaggers passing down Ferry Street and more coming to ask for food […].”