Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗verb
To swagger, to show off.
noun
A fashionably elegant person. · Ostentation; bravado.
adj
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryFashionably elegant, posh.
From dialectal swank (“to strut, behave ostentatiously”), perhaps from an unrecorded Old English root, derived from Proto-Germanic *swankijaną (“to cause to sway, swing”) or from Proto-Germanic *swankaz (“lithe, bendsome, slender”), related to the Scots swank and the Middle High German swanken, modern German schwanken (“to sway”).
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mention*swankijanągem-pro · to cause to sway, swing
- Derivation mention*swankazgem-pro · lithe, bendsome, slender
- Cognate mentionswanksco
- Cognate mentionswankengmh
- Cognate mentionschwankende
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