strutter

noun

strutter

noun

Etymology From Middle English stroutere; equivalent to strut + -er.

1

someone who struts

  • 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?1901, Charles Kingsley, Two Years Ago, Volume I:
  • 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."1917, Irving Bacheller, The Light in the Clearing:
1 more example
  • I imagined Queer Nation as a collection of bizarros who celebrated every outlawed characteristic in our one nation under Helms. I imagined nose rings and strutters and opinionated students and men in lipstick. Sounded like my kind of crowd.1991 February 11, Eric R. Rofes, “My Life As A Queer”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 29, page 11:

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