Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for SWAG'GER
SWAG'GER, v.i. [Sax. swegan, to sound or rattle.]
To bluster; to bully; to boast or brag noisily; to be tumultuously proud. What a pleasure it is to swagger at the bar. – Arbuthnot. To be great is not to swagger at our footmen. – Collier.
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