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Sporting vs Swaggering - What's the difference?

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Sporting is a related term of swaggering.


As verbs the difference between sporting and swaggering

is that sporting is while swaggering is .

As adjectives the difference between sporting and swaggering

is that sporting is (not comparable) pertaining to sports while swaggering is .

As nouns the difference between sporting and swaggering

is that sporting is the act of taking part in a sport while swaggering is boastful, blustering behaviour.

sporting

English

Verb

(head)

    • Adjective

    (more)
  • (not comparable) Pertaining to sports
    • He got a job in a sporting goods store.
  • (comparable) Exhibiting sportsmanship.
    • Quite sporting of you to call that foul on yourself.
  • (comparable) Having a reasonable chance of success.
    • You think he has a sporting chance? I wouldn't call even him a long shot!
  • (comparable) Fair, generous; ‘game’.
    • It was very sporting of her to let us off like that.

    Derived terms

    * sporting goods * sporting house * sporting chance

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of taking part in a sport.
  • * (Philip Schaff)

    • 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.