swankinessn.
/ˈswaŋkɪnɪs/ slang.
The quality of being swanky; swagger.
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the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > [noun]
boast1297
strut1303
bombancec1325
bobantc1330
bobancec1380
ambitionc1384
oliprancec1390
pretence?a1439
ostentationa1475
pransawtea1500
bravity1546
finesse1549
bravery1573
overlashing1579
brave1596
peacockry1596
garishness1598
maggot ostentation1598
ostent1609
flaunta1625
spectability1637
vantation1637
fastuousness1649
fastuosity1656
finery1656
parade1656
phantastry1656
ostentatiousness1658
éclat1704
pretension1706
braw1724
swell1724
showiness1730
ostensibility1775
fanfaronade1784
display1816
showing off1822
glimmer1827
tigerism1836
peacockery1844
show-off1846
flare1847
peacockism1854
swank1854
tigerishness1869
flashness1888
flamboyance1891
peacockishness1892
flamboyancy1896
swankiness1920
plushness1949
glitziness1982
fantasia-
fantastication-
1920 Brit. Weekly & Christian World 2 Sept. 4/2 The average American is free from swankiness.
1965 Listener 22 July 125/1 The ‘swankiness’ inside the school was matched in the streets outside. ‘Grammar grubs’, the secondary schoolboys shouted at us, and we passed by, noses lifted... We thought them the bottom.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2018).
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n.1920