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Straggle vs Swagger - What's the difference?

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Straggle is a related term of swagger.


As verbs the difference between straggle and swagger

is that straggle is to stray from the road, course or line of march while swagger is to walk with a swaying motion; hence, to walk and act in a pompous, consequential manner.

As nouns the difference between straggle and swagger

is that straggle is the act of straggling while swagger is confidence, pride.

straggle

English

Verb

(straggl)
  • To stray from the road, course or line of march.
    • He straggled away from the crowd and went off on his own.
  • To wander about; ramble.
  • * L'Estrange
    • The wolf spied out a straggling kid.
  • To spread at irregular intervals.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1907, author=
    • , title=The Dust of Conflict , chapter=7 citation , passage=Then there was no more cover, for they straggled out, not in ranks but clusters, from among orange trees and tall, flowering shrubs
  • To escape or stretch beyond proper limits, as the branches of a plant; to spread widely apart; to shoot too far or widely in growth.
  • * Mortimer
    • Trim off the small, superfluous branches on each side of the hedge that straggle too far out.
  • To be dispersed or separated; to occur at intervals.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • straggling pistol shots
  • * Sir Walter Raleigh
    • They came between Scylla and Charybdis and the straggling rocks.

    Derived terms

    * (noun ) straggler * (adjective ) stragglingly

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of straggling.
    • (Carlyle)

    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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