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Bumptious vs Swaggering - What's the difference?

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Bumptious is a related term of swaggering.


As adjectives the difference between bumptious and swaggering

is that bumptious is obtrusively pushy; self-assertive to a pretentious extreme while swaggering is .

As a verb swaggering is

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As a noun swaggering is

boastful, blustering behaviour.

bumptious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Obtrusively pushy; self-assertive to a pretentious extreme.
  • * 1877 , (Arthur Conan Doyle), (A Study in Scarlet) :
    • "There are no crimes and no criminals in these days," he said, querulously. "What is the use of having brains in our profession. I know well that I have it in me to make my name famous. No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection of crime which I have done. And what is the result? There is no crime to detect, or, at most, some bungling villainy with a motive so transparent that even a Scotland Yard official can see through it." I was still annoyed at his bumptious style of conversation; I thought it best to change the topic.
  • * 1918 , , The Mirror and the Lamp , ch. 22:
    • From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious ; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.
  • * 1928 , (Virginia Woolf), :
    • She could stand it no longer. It was full of prying old women, she said, who stared in one's face, and of bumptious young men who trod on one's toes.

    Derived terms

    * bumptiously * bumptiousness

    swaggering

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)

    • Antonyms

    * mincing

    Synonyms

    * proud

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Boastful, blustering behaviour.
  • * 1814 , George Cruikshank, ?Robert Cruikshank, The Spirit of the Public Journals
    • Since the return of the redoubtable head of the French people to Paris, I have been no less amused by his ill-digested boastings and swaggerings , than I was before delighted by the complete discomfiture of his ambitious plans.