intransitive. To show proud or angry feeling in one's action or speech; to behave proudly, arrogantly, or overbearingly; to be ‘puffed up’; to…

Proud, haughty, arrogant. Often coupled with proud. to make it stout: to swagger. Obsolete.

= stoutly, adv. Now rare. †to bear oneself stout: to behave haughtily or defiantly.

Of a person. intransitive and transitive (reflexive). To draw oneself up with the head held high and the chin drawn in; spec. †(a) (esp. of a woman)…

to make it proud: to behave proudly or haughtily. See make, v.1 54b. Obsolete.

To walk with an affected air of dignity or importance, stepping stiffly with head erect. Also with it, and with adverb, as about, off. (The current…

figurative. to set up one's bristles: to show temper, resistance, or pride; to bristle up, ‘put up one's back’. to set up any one's bristles: to…

intransitive. To behave proudly or vaingloriously; to flaunt, triumph, swagger. Often to strut it; also to strut it out. Also, to glory, exult upon…

To form by making square; to cut in square or rectangular form. Also with out.

To strut or swagger. Obsolete exc. dialect †Also with it and out.

intransitive. To behave with an air of superiority, in a blustering, insolent, or defiant manner; now esp. to walk or carry oneself as if among…

intransitive. To assume airs; to behave proudly or haughtily; to take liberties. Cf. phrases 1a(d). Obsolete.

intransitive. To behave in a proud or vain manner, to swell with self-importance or self-regard; to swagger.

To bluster, swagger.

hold‥head. to hold one's head high: to behave proudly or arrogantly; (also) = sense 30b.

intransitive. To erect one's crest, raise oneself proudly. Now dialect.

In figurative phr.. to cross shins: see cross, v. 5a.to set out the shin (Scottish), to walk proudly. to graze the shins of, to come very near to.

To walk with the legs wide apart; dialect ‘to swagger, strut’ (Eng. Dial. Dict.).