A person who behaves ostentatiously; a boasting or swaggering person.

Bounce, bluster, pretence; also, a braggart.

Originally: a person who puts on a bold face; a boaster, a braggart; a bully. In later use: a person who faces up to or confronts something.

A violent, overbearing, or quarrelsome person (or thing personified); a blustering bully. Now somewhat rare except as in sense A. 2b.

A swaggering gallant or bully. Also attributive.

A blustering or audacious man.

A loud rude talker; a braggart, bully.

A wild or riotous person; a boisterous or noisy reveller; (also) a bully.

A swaggerer; a swashbuckler; now Scottish an ostentatious person (cf. swash, adj.1, swashing, adj. 1).

= swashbuckler, n.

A young or contemptible roisterer.

A swaggering bravo or ruffian; a noisy braggadocio.

a swaggering fellow, swashbuckler.

= swashbuckler, n. Obsolete.

transferred. A swaggerer, braggadocio.

A conceited fellow who gives himself airs and is quick to take offence; a braggart, hector.

A violent or swaggering person. Also attributive. Cf. swashbuckler, n. Obsolete.

? A swaggerer (other editions published in the author's lifetime read Thraso).

A big blustering fellow. Obsolete.

A swashbuckler; a blustering braggart or ruffian; Scottish a swaggerer, showy fellow. See also quot. 1866.

A swashbuckler, bully, braggadocio; a terrible or great person; a man of importance.

A roisterer.

figurative (contemptuous) A bravo, braggadocio. Obsolete.

see quot. 1598.

n. A swaggering or blustering fellow (? one who uses the ejaculation). Also attributive or adj. Obsolete.

A swaggering or hectoring blade; a swashbuckler. Obsolete.

One who swaggers; †a quarreller.

A braggadocio, bully.

? A braggart, a blusterer. Also attributive.

(a) adj. swaggering, ranting, bombastic (see tear, v.1 1d); (b) n. a bully, swaggerer, ‘fire-eater’.

One who or that which blusters. One who utters loud empty boasts or menaces; a loud or violent inflated talker, a braggart.

a swaggering coxcomb.

(See quot. 1611.)

a bully, swash-buckler.

A person who tears or rushes along or about; a ranter, roisterer, swaggerer, bully.

A spitfire; a braggart.

A swaggering fellow, a hector, a bravo. Obsolete.

(Now usually with lower-case initial.) A swaggering fellow; a swash-buckler; a braggart, blusterer, bully.

(As proper name, with capital S.) A stock character in Italian farce, a cowardly and foolish boaster of his own prowess, who is constantly being…

A swashbuckler.

A boastful, swaggering, hectoring person.

a great blusterer.

A person likened to the character Drawcansir in being boastful, swaggering, or indiscriminately violent or aggressive.

A man given to or characterized by riotous, thuggish, and threatening behaviour; one who behaves in a blustering, swaggering, and aggressive manner…

One puffed up with conceit of his own importance, valour, etc.; one who blusters or swaggers; a hector, a bully. Obsolete.

An adulterer, a fornicator, a lecher. Later also (in somewhat weakened use): a swaggering gallant or bully.

A bully, braggart.

transferred. A blustering noisy talker (obsolete).

A boastful, swaggering, or indiscriminately violent or aggressive person; = Drawcansir, n.

One who bounces (bounce, v. 4).

A blustering braggart who pretends to prowess.

colloquial. A boastful, swaggering fellow.

figurative. English regional (north-western). A peculiar, eccentric, or disorderly person; (in weakened sense) a person, esp. a man. Usually derog…

A boastful pretender to valour.

(?) A swaggerer.

A blustering, swaggering, or domineering fellow; sometimes used as a term of address. Also attributive or as adj. = blustering, swaggering…