Scramble vs Swagger - What's the difference?
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(UK) shouted when something desirable is thrown into a group of people who individually want that item.
To move hurriedly to a location, especially by using all limbs against a surface.
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To proceed to a location or an objective in a disorderly manner.
(transitive, of food ingredients, usually, including egg) To thoroughly combine and cook as a loose mass.
To process (telecommunication signals) to make them unintelligible to an unauthorized listener.
(military) To quickly enter (vehicles, usually aircraft) and proceed to a destination in response to an alert, usually to intercept an attacking enemy.
(sports) To partake in motocross.
To ascend rocky terrain as a leisure activity.
To gather or collect by scrambling.
To struggle eagerly with others for something thrown upon the ground; to go down upon all fours to seize something; to catch rudely at what is desired.
* Milton
A rush or hurry
(military) An emergency defensive air force mission to intercept attacking enemy aircraft.
A motocross race
Any frantic period of activity.
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To walk with a swaying motion; hence, to walk and act in a pompous, consequential manner.
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To boast or brag noisily; to be ostentatiously proud or vainglorious; to bluster; to bully.
* Collier
confidence, pride
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A bold, or arrogant strut.
A prideful boasting or bragging.
Scramble is a related term of swagger.
As verbs the difference between scramble and swagger
is that scramble is to move hurriedly to a location, especially by using all limbs against a surface while swagger is to walk with a swaying motion; hence, to walk and act in a pompous, consequential manner.As nouns the difference between scramble and swagger
is that scramble is a rush or hurry while swagger is confidence, pride.As an interjection scramble
is (uk) shouted when something desirable is thrown into a group of people who individually want that item.scramble
English
Interjection
scramble!Verb
(scrambl)citation, page= , passage=As half-time approached Fabregas had another chance to give Barcelona the lead. He collected an incisive Messi pass and this time beat Cech, who required Cole to scramble back and clear the ball off the line.}}
- When I saw the coffin I knew that I was respited, for, as I judged, there was space between it and the wall behind enough to contain my little carcass; and in a second I had put out the candle, scrambled up the shelves, half-stunned my senses with dashing my head against the roof, and squeezed my body betwixt wall and coffin.
- I scrambled some eggs with spinach and cheese.
- to scramble up wealth
- (Marlowe)
- Of other care they little reckoning make, / Than how to scramble at the shearer's feast.
Derived terms
* scrambled eggsNoun
(en noun)Antonyms
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* English ergative verbsswagger
English
Verb
(en verb)- a man who swaggers about London clubs
- To be great is not to swagger at our footmen.
- (Jonathan Swift)
Derived terms
* swaggerer * swaggeringlyNoun
(en noun)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}}