strutter
(ˈstrʌtə(r))
In 4 strouter, 6 strowter.
[f. strut v.1 + -er1.]
One who struts.
| 1399 Langl. R. Redeles iii. 269 To strie strouters þat sterede aȝeine rithis. a 1591 H. Smith Serm. (1594) 227 They which will be strowters, shall not want flatterers. 1682 H. More Annot. Glanvill's Lux Orient. 12 What a mere nothing it is that this Strutter has pronounced with such sonorous Rhetorick. 1727 Gay Fables I. xl. 5 The Don, a formal, solemn strutter, Despises Monsieur's airs and flutter. 1804 E. de Acton Tale without Title II. 268 Those servile strutters in a great man's livery. 1824 Miss Mitford Village I. 54 A brood or two of bantams..with a little ridiculous strutter of a cock at their head. |