swashbucklingadj.
Acting like, or characteristic of the conduct of, a swashbuckler; noisily swaggering, blustering.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > blustering or bravado > [adjective]
termagant1546
roisterly1555
swashing1556
puffing1566
roisting1567
cocking1568
braving1579
huffling1582
kill-cow1589
roister-doistering1593
roister-doisterly1593
hufty-tufty1596
swaggering1596
huff-cap1597
sword-and-buckler1598
huffing1602
pyrgopolinizing1605
bold-beatinga1616
swash1635
swaga1640
blustering1652
bravashing1652
hectoring1664
hectorly1676
huffy1677
huff-snuff1693
swashbuckling1693
flustering1698
blustery1739
huffish1755
bravading1812
topping1815
Bobadilish1832
Bobadilian1837
fanfaronading1837
bucko1883
swashbucklering1884
swaggery1886
blokeish1920
blokey1938
1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. xlii. 349 The huff, snuff,..swash-buckling High Germans.
1863 G. A. Sala in Temple Bar IX. 65 The Hungarian are stout wines, of a swash~buckling flavour.
1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake II. xiii. 220 A swash-buckling ruffian.
1889 T. B. Reed in Boy's Own Paper 3 Aug. 696/1 A score of more of swashbuckling 'prentices were on board the ship.
Derivatives
ˈswashˌbuckle v. [as a back-formation] to swagger noisily, act like a blustering bravo.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > blustering or bravado > bluster [verb (intransitive)]
face1440
brace1447
ruffle1484
puff1490
to face (something) out with a card of ten?1499
to face with a card of ten?1499
cock1542
to brave it1549
roist1563
huff1598
swagger1600
ruff1602
tear1602
bouncec1626
to bravade the street1634
brustle1648
hector1661
roister1663
huffle1673
ding1679
fluster1698
bully1733
to bluster like bull-beef1785
swell1795
buck1880
swashbuckle1897
loudmouth1931
1897 Westm. Gaz. 6 Jan. 3/1 He strikes one as a bravo, he swashbuckles and swaggers.
1939 W. Fortescue There's Rosemary vi. 41 One proud day I was promoted to study the part of Rosalind in ‘As You Like It’, and I swashbuckled round that flat in imaginary doublet and hose.
1979 R. Blythe View in Winter ix. 312 I knew a remittance man in Kenya..swashbuckling about with a revolver in his belt.
ˈswashˌbuckling n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > blustering or bravado > [noun]
facing1481
blusteringa1494
flirdom?a1500
bravity1546
bravery1548
roistingc1560
bravado1583
roister-doisterdom1592
swash1593
swaggeringa1596
huffing1600
hufty1609
huff1611
brustling1622
hufty-tufty1633
bouncing1634
hectorism1672
huffiness1678
bluster1692
bounce1714
bravadoism1833
fanfaronading1837
bush1840
huffishness1841
swashbuckling1888
bucko1909
1888 Boston Transcript 7 July 4/4 Swashbucklers are generally satisfied with swashbuckling.
1894 Athenæum 27 Oct. 565/3 The one occasionally degenerates into artifice, and the other into literary swashbuckling.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1918; most recently modified version published online June 2020).
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