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Swaggering vs Strutting - What's the difference?

swaggering | strutting |

As verbs the difference between swaggering and strutting

is that swaggering is while strutting is .

As nouns the difference between swaggering and strutting

is that swaggering is boastful, blustering behaviour while strutting is the act of one who struts.

As an adjective swaggering

is .

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.

    strutting

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who struts.
  • * 1906 , Jack London, White Fang
    • When dogs fight, there are usually preliminaries to the actual combat — snarlings and bristlings and stiff-legged struttings . But White Fang learned to omit these preliminaries.