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- noun Plural form of
swaggerer .
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Examples
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Sullivan, may truly be said to have become "swaggerers;" for they loitered about the place, ostentatiously displaying their bags of gold dust.
Station Amusements 1871
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The swallow-diving swaggerers of Twickenham or the one-dimensional, hollow bunch whose confidence evaporated so totally on Saturday night?
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While slim young swaggerers like Juan Diego Flórez (as the Duke in "Rigoletto") and Marius Kwiecien (as Don Giovanni) can pull it off, other singers cannot.
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I am one of the so called “swaggerers” of CO19 neither I nor the vast majority of my colleagues swagger.
CO19 - A Few Good Men « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2006
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I met, among young men of my own age, a set of swaggerers who held their heads high, and talked about trifles as they seated themselves without a tremor beside women who inspired awe in me.
The Magic Skin 2007
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The biggest blowhards and swaggerers are the most frightened.
Think Progress » Contradicting Bush, Cheney Claims ‘We Have In Fact Made Enormous Progress’ In Iraq 2007
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Wretched and forlorn as he looked, Mr Slyme had once been in his way, the choicest of swaggerers; putting forth his pretensions boldly, as a man of infinite taste and most undoubted promise.
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Pray ye, pacify yourself, Sir John: there comes no swaggerers here.
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They were well-grown youths, with silken blond beards; and in their behaviour, half-swaggerers, half-gentlemen.
A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France William Duthie
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A Prussian is naturally a swaggerer; but then, unfortunately for other Germans, who are swaggerers too, the Prussian has something to boast of.
A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France William Duthie
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