• (British) IPA: /ˈswæɡ.ə/
• (America) IPA: /ˈswæɡ.ɚ/

swagger (swaggers, present participle swaggering; past and past participle swaggered)

1. To walk with a swaying motion; hence, to walk and act in a pompous, consequential manner.

   • a man who swaggers about London clubs

2. To boast or brag noisily; to be ostentatiously proud or vainglorious; to bluster; to bully.

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

• French: rouler des épaules
• German: stolzieren
• Italian: pavoneggiarsi
• Russian: расхаживать с важный

• French: pavaner, plastronner, rouler des mécaniques
• German: großtun, schwadronieren
• Italian: pavoneggiarsi, gloriarsi, millantarsi
• Russian: ва́жничать

• French: se vanter, fanfaronner, (colloquial) se la péter, (vulgar) péter plus haut que son cul, (informal) faire le beau
• German: angeben, prahlen, aufschneiden

swagger

1. Confidence, pride.
2. A bold or arrogant strut.
   • 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], OCLC 1042815524 ↗, part I:

     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.

3. A prideful boasting or bragging.

• French: fierté
• German: Selbstbewusstsein, Stolz

• French: prétentieux, rouleur de mécaniques, outrecuidant
• German: Stolzieren
• Italian: boria, spavalderia
• Portuguese: marra
• Spanish: pavoneo

• French: hâblerie, fanfaronnade, plastronnade, gasconnade, vantardise
• German: Angeberei, Prahlerei, Großtuerei
• Portuguese: bravata
• Spanish: fanfarroneo

swagger

1. (slang, archaic) 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.

   • Mrs J.J. [Thomson] looked very well and was dressed very swagger and made a very fine hostess.

swagger (plural swaggers)

1. (Australia, NZ, historical) Synonym of swagman#English|swagman