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Swagger vs Gascon - What's the difference?

swagger | gascon |

As nouns the difference between swagger and gascon

is that swagger is confidence, pride while Gascon is a native or inhabitant of Gascony, a region of southwest France.

As a verb swagger

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

As an adjective Gascon is

of or relating to Gascony.

As a proper noun Gascon is

the dialect of the Occitan language spoken in Gascony.

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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    gascon

    English

    Alternative forms

    * Gascoigne * Gascoine

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A native or inhabitant of Gascony, a region of southwest France.
  • *, II.8:
  • *:I am a Gascoine , and there is no vice wherein I have lesse skill: I hate it somewhat more by complexion, than I accuse it by discourse.
  • * 1948 , ‘The New Pictures’, Time , 1 Nov.:
    • Gene Kelly plays D'Artagnan as an irrepressible, tongue-in-cheek Gascon who is knee-deep in gory swordplay.
  • (obsolete) A braggart; a bully.

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Of or relating to Gascony.
  • (obsolete) braggart; swaggering

    • Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • The dialect of the Occitan language spoken in Gascony.

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