swagger

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

SWAG'GER, verb intransitive To bluster; to bully; to boast or brag noisily; to be tumultuously proud. What a pleasure it is to swagger at the bar. To be great is not to swagger at our footmen.
Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary ↗ · public-domain · returned verbatim, no AI

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