Scurry vs Swagger - What's the difference?
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To run away with quick light steps, to scamper.
* 1964 ,
To walk with a swaying motion; hence, to walk and act in a pompous, consequential manner.
* Beaconsfield
To boast or brag noisily; to be ostentatiously proud or vainglorious; to bluster; to bully.
* Collier
confidence, pride
* {{quote-news
, year=2012
, date=April 9
, author=Mandeep Sanghera
, title=Tottenham 1 - 2 Norwich
, work=BBC Sport
A bold, or arrogant strut.
A prideful boasting or bragging.
Scurry is a related term of swagger.
As verbs the difference between scurry and swagger
is that scurry is to run away with quick light steps, to scamper while swagger is to walk with a swaying motion; hence, to walk and act in a pompous, consequential manner.As a noun swagger is
confidence, pride.scurry
English
Verb
(en-verb)- Then the piglet tore loose from the creepers and scurried into the undergrowth.
Derived terms
* scurry away * scurry offAnagrams
*swagger
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}}