aswagger

English

Etymology

a- +‎ swagger

Adverb

aswagger (not comparable)

  1. Swaggering, with a proud or boastful swaying gait.
    • 1911, Robert J.C. Stead, “The Son of Marquis Noddle”, in Songs of the Prairie‎, Toronto: William Briggs, page 55:
      he tries to walk a-swagger with a military chest
    • 1926, Wilbur Daniel Steele, “Out of the Wind”, in Urkey Island‎, New York: Harcourt, Brace, page 276:
      [she] looked at her husband, a-swagger with his hat on the back of his head and a laugh on his lips,
    • 1997, Don DeLillo, Underworld‎, Part 5, Chapter 4, p. 570:
      Crisp little men aswagger with assets.
    • 2001, chapter 29, in David Tod Roy, transl., The Plum in the Golden Vase‎, volume 2, Princeton University Press, page 191:
      The other is all aswagger as she brandishes / her implacable sword.
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