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Debonair vs Swaggering - What's the difference?

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Debonair is a related term of swaggering.


As adjectives the difference between debonair and swaggering

is that debonair is (obsolete) gracious, courteous while swaggering is .

As a verb swaggering is

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As a noun swaggering is

boastful, blustering behaviour.

debonair

English

Alternative forms

* debonaire

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Gracious, courteous.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.vi:
    • Let be that Ladie debonaire , / Thou recreant knight, and soone thy selfe prepaire / To battell [...].
  • Suave, urbane and sophisticated.
  • (especially of men) Charming, confident and carefully dressed.

    • Anagrams

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    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.