aswaggerとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

a- +‎ swagger

副詞

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, p. 55,^[1]

     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, p. 276,^[2]

     [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,^[3]

     Crisp little men aswagger with assets.

   • 2001, David Tod Roy (translator), The Plum in the Golden Vase, Princeton University Press, Volume 2, Chapter 29, p. 191,^[4]

     The other is all aswagger as she brandishes / her implacable sword.