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Alphabetical vs Swagger - What's the difference?

alphabetical | swagger |

As an adjective alphabetical

is pertaining to, furnished with, or expressed by letters of the alphabet.

As a verb 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.

alphabetical

English

Adjective

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  • Pertaining to, furnished with, or expressed by letters of the alphabet.
  • * 1986 , Arthur Hilary Armstrong, A. A. Armstrong, Classical Mediterranean Spirituality: Egyptian, Greek, Roman ?, page 486
    • Paul, who talks about what the magical papyri do, has in his first letter to the Corinthians described basic aspects of alphabetical language.
  • According to the sequence of the letters of the alphabet.
    • All names were placed into an alphabetical list.
  • (obsolete) literal
  • * Milton
    • Alphabetical servility.

    Derived terms

    * alphabetical order * alphabetically

    Related terms

    * alphabet * alphabetize

    swagger

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To walk with a swaying motion; hence, to walk and act in a pompous, consequential manner.
  • * Beaconsfield
    • a man who swaggers about London clubs
  • To boast or brag noisily; to be ostentatiously proud or vainglorious; to bluster; to bully.
  • * Collier
    • To be great is not to swagger at our footmen.
    (Jonathan Swift)

    Derived terms

    * swaggerer * swaggeringly

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • confidence, pride
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=April 9 , author=Mandeep Sanghera , title=Tottenham 1 - 2 Norwich , work=BBC Sport 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}}
  • A bold, or arrogant strut.
  • A prideful boasting or bragging.

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