aswagger

English

Etymology

From a- +‎ swagger.

Adverb

aswagger (not comparable)

1. Swaggering, with a proud or boastful swaying gait.
   • 1911, Robert J.C. Stead, “The Son of Marquis Noddle”, in Songs of the Prairie‎^[1], Toronto: William Briggs, page 55:

     he tries to walk a-swagger with a military chest

   • 1926, Wilbur Daniel Steele, “Out of the Wind”, in Urkey Island‎^[2], New York: Harcourt, Brace, page 276:

     [she] looked at her husband, a-swagger with his hat on the back of his head and a laugh on his lips,

   • 1997, Don DeLillo, Underworld‎^[3], Part 5, Chapter 4, p. 570:

     Crisp little men aswagger with assets.

   • 2001, chapter 29, in David Tod Roy, transl., The Plum in the Golden Vase‎^[4], volume 2, Princeton University Press, page 191:

     The other is all aswagger as she brandishes / her implacable sword.