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swashbuckler

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Noun
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swash=buck=ler

CIDE DICTIONARY

swashbucklern. 
     A bully or braggadocio; a swaggering, boastful fellow; a swaggerer.  Milton.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

swashbuckler, n. a swaggering bully or ruffian.

Derivative
swashbuckling adj. & n.
Etymology
SWASH(1) + BUCKLER

THESAURUS

swashbuckler

Herod, battler, belligerent, belted knight, bickerer, blade, blatherskite, bluff, bluffer, blusterer, braggart, bravo, brawler, bucko, bully, bullyboy, combatant, competitor, contender, contestant, disputant, duelist, enforcer, fanfaron, fencer, feuder, fighter, fighting cock, foilsman, gamecock, gladiator, goon, gorilla, hatchet man, hector, hectorer, hood, hoodlum, hooligan, jouster, knight, miles gloriosus, militant, peacock, plug-ugly, quarreler, ranter, raver, rioter, rival, roisterer, rough, rowdy, ruffian, sabreur, scrapper, scuffler, squabbler, strong arm, strong-arm man, strong-armer, struggler, strutter, swaggerer, swanker, swash, swasher, sword, swordplayer, swordsman, thug, tilter, tough, tussler, vaporer, wrangler

ROGET THESAURUS

swashbuckler

Blusterer

N blusterer, swaggerer, vaporer, roisterer, brawler, fanfaron, braggart, bully, terrorist, rough, bulldozer, hoodlum, hooligan, larrikin, roarer, Mohock, Mohawk, drawcansir, swashbuckler, Captain Bobadil, Sir Lucius O'Trigger, Thraso, Pistol, Parolles, Bombastes Furioso, Hector, Chrononhotonthologos, jingo, desperado, dare-devil, fire eater, fury, rowdy, slang-whanger, tough, puppy, prig, Sir Oracle, dogmatist, doctrinaire, jack-in-office, saucebox, malapert, jackanapes, minx, bantam-cock.


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