swagger

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈswæɡ.ə/    美 /ˈswæɡ.ɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Confidence, pride. countable,uncountable
    — 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
  2. Someone carrying a swag; a swagman. Australia,New-Zealand,historical
    — There were now more swaggers passing down Ferry Street and more coming to ask for food […].
  3. A bold or arrogant strut. countable,uncountable
    — 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.
  4. A prideful boasting or bragging. countable,uncountable
    — 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.
动词 v.
  1. 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. To boast or brag noisily; to bluster; to bully.
    — To be great is not […] to swagger at our footmen.
  3. To walk with a swaying motion.
    — It's the injustice… he is so unjust— whiskey-blind, swaggering home at five.
形容词 adj.
  1. Fashionable; trendy. archaic,slang
    — 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.

词形变化

swaggers present,singular,third-person swaggering participle,present swaggered participle,past swaggered past swaggers plural more swagger comparative most swagger superlative swaggers plural

词汇关系

衍生词
aswagger outswagger swaggerer swaggerific swaggeringly swagger it swagger-jack swaggerlicious swaggery swag swagger coat swagger portrait swaggersome swagger stick

词源

词源 1
A frequentative form of swag (“to sway”), first attested in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595), see quotations.
词源 2
Etymology tree
English swag
English -er
English swagger
From swag + -er.
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