strutter
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English stroutere; equivalent to strut + -er.
Noun
[edit]strutter (plural strutters)
- someone who struts
- 1901, Charles Kingsley, Two Years Ago, Volume I[1]:
- Which is the boaster, the strutter, the bedizener of his sinful carcase with feathers and beads, fox-tails and bears' claws,--the brave, or his poor little squaw?
- 1917, Irving Bacheller, The Light in the Clearing[2]:
- First there's the Grimshaw o' greed--swinish, heartless greed--the other is the Grimshaw o' vanity--the strutter, with sword at belt, who would have men bow or flee before him."
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Verb
[edit]strutter