1. (

• tittup ,
• swagger ,
• ruffle ,
• prance ,
• strut ,
• sashay ,
• cock

) to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others; "He struts around like a rooster in a hen house" ;

2. (

• browbeat ,
• bully ,
• swagger ,

) discourage or frighten with threats or a domineering manner; intimidate ;

3. (

• swagger ,
• bluster ,
• swash

) act in an arrogant, overly self-assured, or conceited manner ;

1. (

• disdainful ,
• haughty ,
• imperious ,
• lordly ,
• overbearing ,
• prideful ,
• sniffy ,
• supercilious ,
• swaggering

) having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy; "some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines"; "haughty aristocrats"; "his lordly manners were offensive"; "walked with a prideful swagger"; "very sniffy about breaches of etiquette"; "his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air"; "a more swaggering mood than usual"- W.L.Shirer ;

2. (

• swaggering ,
• swashbuckling

) flamboyantly adventurous ;