[f. SWAGGER v. + -ER1.] One who swaggers; † a quarreller.
1592. Nobody & Someb., in Simpson, Sch. Shaks. (1878), I. 292. Your Cavaliers and swaggerers bout the towne That dominere in Taverns, sweare and stare.
1597. Shaks., 2 Hen. IV., II. iv. 81. Shut the doore, there comes no Swaggerers heere.
1649. Milton, Eikon., iii. Wks. 1851, III. 355. All the passages … be besett with Swords and Pistols cockt and menac’d in the hands of about three hundred Swaggerers and Ruffians.
1779. Johnson, L. P., Butler, Wks. II. 186. Hudibras … the hero … compounded of swaggerer and pedant.
1841. Dickens, Barn. Rudge, x. None of your audacious young swaggerers, who would even penetrate into the bar.
1855. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., xvi. III. 641. Some swaggerers, who had … run from the breast work at Oldbridge without drawing a trigger, now swore that they would lay the town in ashes.
