swagger

1. 1.

   an itinerant Australian laborer who carries his personal belongings in a bundle as he travels around in search of work

   Synonymsswagmanswaggie

   Broaderitinerant

   Australia

2. 2.

   a proud stiff pompous gait

   Synonymsstrutprance

   Broadergait

1. 1.

   (British informal) very chic

   “groovy clothes”

   Synonymsgroovy

   Similarfashionable

   colloquialism · United Kingdom

Other forms of swagger

plural

swaggers·

past tense

swaggerred·

present participle

swaggerring·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about swagger

What does swagger mean?

swagger means "to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in swagger?

swagger has 2 syllables: swag-ger. The stress falls on "swag". In IPA it is /ˈswæɡɚ/.

What is another word for swagger?

Close synonyms include tittup, ruffle, prance, strut, sashay. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is swagger a common word?

swagger is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.