0 present participle of swagger
1 to walk or behave in a way that shows that you are very confident and think that you are important:
Certainly, their jailbreaks, public displays of violence, and highly vocal protests fit a familiar image of swaggering and courageous rebels.
All of this is said with staggering confidence, swaggering arrogance and the certainty of ignorance.
Such cynics saw honour as a matter of rank and preferment, to be gained by noisy shows of loyalty and the traditional swaggering bravado of the braggart soldier.
It is therefore the assumption of the trickster persona that allows the narrator to become the swaggering, badman folk villain who is incapable of remaining within traditional societal structures.
Such people can be seen every day swaggering up and down the streets of our inner cities.
However, as he is 14, he was swaggering around the estate once more within days.
But if one belongs to a minority group one can use one's birth not in swaggering displays of uniqueness, believing that one has some special superiority.
Everybody else would do the same, and then you may get a captain away in a far-off sea, perhaps a little elated on occasions, swaggering with his armed merchantman.
