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Amygdaloid vs Swagger - What's the difference?

amygdaloid | swagger |

As nouns the difference between amygdaloid and swagger

is that amygdaloid is a variety of trap or basaltic rock, containing small cavities, occupied, wholly or in part, by nodules or geodes of different minerals, especially agates, quartz, calcite, and the zeolites when the imbedded minerals are detached or removed by decomposition, it is porous, like lava while swagger is confidence, pride.

As an adjective amygdaloid

is shaped like an almond.

As a verb swagger is

to walk with a swaying motion; hence, to walk and act in a pompous, consequential manner.

amygdaloid

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Shaped like an almond.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A variety of trap or basaltic rock, containing small cavities, occupied, wholly or in part, by nodules or geodes of different minerals, especially agates, quartz, calcite, and the zeolites. When the imbedded minerals are detached or removed by decomposition, it is porous, like lava.

    • Synonyms

    * mandlestone

    Derived terms

    * amygdaloidal

    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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