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Hotfoot vs Swagger - What's the difference?

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Hotfoot is a related term of swagger.


As nouns the difference between hotfoot and swagger

is that hotfoot is (us) the prank of secretly inserting a match between the sole and upper of a victim's shoe and then lighting it while swagger is confidence, pride.

As an adverb hotfoot

is (british) hastily; without delay.

As a verb swagger is

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

hotfoot

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (US) The prank of secretly inserting a match between the sole and upper of a victim's shoe and then lighting it.

    • Adverb

    (head)
  • (British) hastily; without delay.

    • Derived terms

    * hotfoot it

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    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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