| 单词 | swagger |
| 释义 | swag·ger I. intransitive verb 1. a. < allowed … to swagger and bluster and take the limelight without a word of reproach — Margaret Mead > especially < buccaneers swaggered down the filthy streets — H.E.Rieseberg > b. < three or four elephants, loaded with hay, swaggered down the crowded street — L.C.Stevens > c. Scotland 2. obsolete a. b. 3. < talks little of his experience and I ask him why he doesn't swagger more — O.W.Holmes †1935 > transitive verb < will strive either to cheat or to swagger you out of your money — Sir Walter Scott > II. 1. a. < his stride was majestic — just short of a swagger — Roark Bradford > < insisted, with a prideful swagger — Harry Hansen > b. < the swagger of the brothers threatened further trouble — Hamlin Garland > < had driven to the opera with the real swagger of the aristocrat — Victoria Sackville-West > c. < these overtures are dazzling still for their swagger and dash — Irving Kolodin > 2. < the throng so full of swagger and youth — Osbert Sitwell > < poetry with all the American swagger left in — Louise Bogan > III. 1. < swagger youths in yellow gloves — Arnold Bennett > < a swagger wedding at eleven — Bruce Marshall > 2. of a coat < familiar swagger trench coat — Lois Long > IV. V. chiefly Australia |
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