swaggerer

English

Etymology

swagger +‎ -er

Noun

swaggerer (plural swaggerers)

1. One who swaggers.
   • 1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, volume II, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, chapter 10, page 289:

     He was […] none of your audacious young swaggerers, who would even penetrate into the bar—that solemn sanctuary—and, smiting old John upon the back, inquire if there was never a pretty girl in the house, and where he hid his little chambermaids, with a hundred other impertinencies of that nature; […]

Synonyms

• boaster
• braggart
• bragger
• swagger

Translations

one who swaggers

• Bulgarian: самохвалко m (samohvalko)
• Finnish: herrastelija, hienostelija (fi)
• Galician: farfallán m, farfantón m
• German: Prahler (de) m, Angeber (de) m, Großtuer m
• Greek:

  Ancient: λαπιστής m (lapistḗs)

• Latin: salacō m

See also

• blusterer
• bully
• boastful

References

• “swaggerer”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.