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swaggerer

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Etymology

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From swagger +‎ -er.

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swaggerer (plural swaggerers)

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

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