swaggering

adj, noun — 2 senses

adj

Boastful, proud, self-confident.

noun

Boastful, blustering behaviour.

Since the return of the redoubtable head of the French people to Paris, I have been no less amused by his ill-digested boastings and swaggerings, than I was before delighted by the complete discomfiture of his ambitious plans.1814, George Cruikshank, Robert Cruikshank, The Spirit of the Public Journals:

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