Agitate vs Swagger - What's the difference?
agitate | swagger |
To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel.
(rare) To move or actuate.
:(Thomson)
To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly agitated.
To discuss with great earnestness; to debate; as, a controversy hotly agitated.
:(Boyle)
To revolve in the mind, or view in all its aspects; to contrive busily; to devise; to plot; as, politicians agitate desperate designs.
To walk with a swaying motion; hence, to walk and act in a pompous, consequential manner.
* Beaconsfield
To boast or brag noisily; to be ostentatiously proud or vainglorious; to bluster; to bully.
* Collier
confidence, pride
* {{quote-news
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A bold, or arrogant strut.
A prideful boasting or bragging.
As verbs the difference between agitate and swagger
is that agitate is to move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel while swagger is to walk with a swaying motion; hence, to walk and act in a pompous, consequential manner.As a noun swagger is
confidence, pride.agitate
English
(Webster 1913)Verb
(agitat)- ``Winds . . . agitate the air.'' --Cowper.
- The mind of man is agitated by various passions. --Johnson.
Synonyms
* move, shake, excite, rouse, disturb, distract, revolve, discuss, debate, canvassExternal links
* * * ----swagger
English
Verb
(en verb)- a man who swaggers about London clubs
- To be great is not to swagger at our footmen.
- (Jonathan Swift)
Derived terms
* swaggerer * swaggeringlyNoun
(en noun)citation, page= , passage=After spending so much of the season looking upwards, the swashbuckling style and swagger of early season Spurs was replaced by uncertainty and frustration against a Norwich side who had the quality and verve to take advantage}}