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Definition
walk or behave in a highly confident or proud manner — often arrogant and sometimes to impress or intimidate others
- He would soon put an end to the swaggering threats with which such men as you go about insulting people—gadding all over the town while your flocks are going to ruin through bad shepherding.Book 17 (40% in)
- "What do you mean, Telemachus," replied Antinous, "by this swaggering talk?Book 17 (66% in)
- Antinous scolded him and said, "You swaggering bully, you ought never to have been born at all if you are afraid of such an old broken down creature as this tramp is.Book 18 (19% in)
There are no more uses of "swagger" in The Odyssey by Homer - (translated by: Butler).
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