All 6 Uses of
swagger
in
Notes from the Underground
- But, gentlemen, whoever can pride himself on his diseases and even swagger over them?†
Chpt 1.2 *swagger = walk and behave in a highly confident manner
- During his last year at school he came in for an estate of two hundred serfs, and as almost all of us were poor he took up a swaggering tone among us.†
Chpt 2.3swaggering = walking and behaving in a highly confident manner
- He was vulgar in the extreme, but at the same time he was a good-natured fellow, even in his swaggering.†
Chpt 2.3
- In spite of superficial, fantastic and sham notions of honour and dignity, all but very few of us positively grovelled before Zverkov, and the more so the more he swaggered.†
Chpt 2.3swaggered = walked or behaved in a highly confident manner
- Of Simonov's two visitors, one was Ferfitchkin, a Russianised German—a little fellow with the face of a monkey, a blockhead who was always deriding everyone, a very bitter enemy of mine from our days in the lower forms—a vulgar, impudent, swaggering fellow, who affected a most sensitive feeling of personal honour, though, of course, he was a wretched little coward at heart.†
Chpt 2.3swaggering = walking and behaving in a highly confident manner
- I was so delighted at this that, as I signed the IOU with a swaggering air, I told him casually that the night before "I had been keeping it up with some friends at the Hotel de Paris; we were giving a farewell party to a comrade, in fact, I might say a friend of my childhood, and you know—a desperate rake, fearfully spoilt—of course, he belongs to a good family, and has considerable means, a brilliant career; he is witty, charming, a regular Lovelace, you understand; we drank an extra 'half-dozen' and ..."†
Chpt 2.8
Definition:
walk or behave in a highly confident or proud manner -- often arrogant and sometimes to impress or intimidate others
Swagger is often used to imply that someone moves or behaves as though they are so strong and capable as to be above physical fear. Such people are often portrayed on television as gang members or cowboys.