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strutting

[ struht-ing ]

adjective

  1. walking or moving with a strut; walking pompously; pompous.


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  • strutting·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of strutting1

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; strut 1, -ing 2
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Example Sentences

For one night only, queens of color take the stage for some “fabulous strutting, lip-synching and dancing.”

From Anna Wintour to Rita Ora to Claire Danes, stars are strutting their stuff in red this season.

This seems like a bit too much bantam strutting, when the jury is literally still out in much of the country.

Paul, strutting across the stage with a wireless microphone and wearing blue jeans, hit almost every other note.

When Rita Ora relieved Zac Efron of his shirt at the MTV Movie Awards, his apparent surprise shifted quickly to strutting.

And maybe that video of George W. Bush strutting around on an aircraft carrier in his flight suit.

The skulking, strutting, mincing, hurrying forms that pass us and fade out into the night are now becoming characters.

Proudly strutting onward and crowing, Coquerico at last arrived at Rome, the place to which all roads lead.

He jumped up and made off without a word, but from the east window we watched him strutting down the brae.

There is a kind of rusticity in all those pompous verses; somewhat of a holiday shepherd strutting in his country buskins.

Their exuberant youthfulness, their strutting, and their obvious belief in themselves, made a strong appeal to her imagination.

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