aswagger

adv

aswagger

adv

Etymology From a- + swagger.

1

Swaggering, with a proud or boastful swaying gait.

he tries to walk a-swagger with a military chest1911, Robert J.C. Stead, “The Son of Marquis Noddle”, in Songs of the Prairie, Toronto: William Briggs, page 55:
[she] looked at her husband, a-swagger with his hat on the back of his head and a laugh on his lips,1926, Wilbur Daniel Steele, “Out of the Wind”, in Urkey Island, New York: Harcourt, Brace, page 276:

2 more examples

Crisp little men aswagger with assets.1997, Don DeLillo, Underworld, Part 5, Chapter 4, p. 570:
The other is all aswagger as she brandishes / her implacable sword.2001, chapter 29, in David Tod Roy, transl., The Plum in the Golden Vase, volume 2, Princeton University Press, page 191:

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