strutting
Parading with confidence
Strutting is walking with exaggerated pride or self-importance—chest out, shoulders back, steps deliberate and showy.
A rooster struts around the barnyard; a person struts after a victory or to project confidence: He came strutting in like he owned the place.
The word often carries a note of mockery, suggesting the pride is unearned or excessive.
Confident, boastful manner
- sashayWalk with showy confidence
- pranceStep high and proud
- paradeCeremonial public procession
- flauntDisplay to provoke envy
catwalk · runway · gait · stride · posture · showboating · peacocking · vogue
Ornate pheasant relative
- roosterMale domestic fowl
- pigeonStout urban bird
- gamecockBird bred for combat
- plumageBird's complete feather coat
tailfeathers · preen · courtship · display · chest-puffing · ruffled · breeding · territorial
Trusting in oneself
- boldnessFearless readiness to act
- bravadoPretense of fearlessness
- poiseGraceful, unshakable calm
- assertivenessConfident self-expression quality
empowerment · fearlessness · audacity · cockiness · self-possession · pride · assurance · moxie
Affectedly grand in manner
- conceitedExcessively proud of oneself
- haughtyDisdainfully proud
- smugExcessively self-satisfied
- vainExcessively proud or futile
egotistical · self-important · overbearing · supercilious · snobbish · preening · swaggering · boastful
swagger
Confident, boastful manner
flaunt · catwalk · runway · gait · stride · posture · showboating · peacocking · vogue · attitude
peacock
Ornate pheasant relative
plumage · tailfeathers · preen · courtship · display · chest-puffing · ruffled · breeding · territorial · mating
self-assured
Trusting in oneself
assertiveness · empowerment · fearlessness · audacity · cockiness · self-possession · pride · assurance · moxie · panache
pompous
Affectedly grand in manner
vain · egotistical · self-important · overbearing · supercilious · snobbish · preening · swaggering · boastful · show-off
- ways to walkmarching, prancing, strolling, striding, stomping
- mating displayspeacock display, crane dance, tail fan
- walkingwalking, brisk walking, strolling, ambling, sauntering
- animal signalsbody language, bird songs, tail wagging, mating calls, whale song
- intimidationthreats, threatening, menacing, intimidate, bullying
- leg movementswalking, running, jogging, stepping, kicking
struttingcowering
Shrinking in fear
cringing · shrinking · wilting · self-effacing · humble
struttingmodest
Lacking in pretension
self-effacing · unassuming · concealing · hiding · inconspicuous
- strutting one's stuffDisplaying abilities ostentatiously
- peacock strutting