Meanings of swank (swanking) in English

If fellows around you are swanking in dirt, leave them and go elsewhere.

The doorkeeper saw it was a large, swanking envelope with very polite writing.

I don't go around swanking about it, I try not to.

They were inclined to suspect that his quiet confidence was swanking.

Where did Napoleon get off, swanking round as if he amounted to something?

I can't help swanking bits from 'Julius Caesar,' you know-myonly Shakespeare play!

We thought it was their leader, their swanking, or we would not have harmed him.

He hoped she did not think he was swanking.

Gwinnie came with a big fork, swanking, for fun, trying to pitch a whole haycock.

Indeed it was apparent that Moriarty's self-congratulatory and swanking speech was intended wholly for Mr Holmes's benefit.

That ought to stop her swanking.

As a matter of fact, though it seems rather like swanking, there isn't much about dogs that I don't know.

Dug spikes into the guest's coconut while he was asleep, and then went swanking about the place like a Girl Guide.

Then she came home and saw the girls of her own district swanking about like last year's patterns, as she said.

That's an awful lot of superior saints swanking around in heaven, getting the best restaurant tables and flying first class, writes Kevin Myers.

No sooner had I started swanking around at work, casually dropping news of the impending trip to colleagues, when another email arrived from Tokyo.