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# swaggering

«swaggering» in Mova's school dictionary: **Walking or behaving in a proud, show-off way, as if you…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (swaggering); form of the verb swagger (swagger, swaggers, swaggered, swaggering)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Walking or behaving in a proud, show-off way, as if you are very important. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swaggering/#m1)

2) Too confident and boastful. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swaggering/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

A character word: it tells the reader someone is proud and showing off. Toad in The Wind in the Willows is the classic swaggering character — swaggering in his motor-car goggles and boasting songs. Pirates and bullies are often described as swaggering in stories.

### examples

- Toad came swaggering down the drive in his goggles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swaggering/#x1)
- The swaggering pirate laughed at the crew. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swaggering/#x2)
- He walked in with a swaggering grin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swaggering/#x3)
- The team's swaggering captain lost the match. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swaggering/#x4)
- I don't like his swaggering way of talking. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swaggering/#x5)
- The cockerel strutted about, swaggering. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swaggering/#x6)

### note

From the verb «swagger» (regular). Noun «swagger»: «He walked with a swagger.» Similar: strutting, boastful. Do not confuse with «staggering» (walking unsteadily, or amazing).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «swaggering» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/swaggering/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.