strut

Mane (English)

Verb

1. Of a peacock or other fowl: to stand or walk stiffly, with the tail erect and spread out.
2. To walk haughtily or proudly with one's head held high.
3. To walk across or on (a stage or other place) haughtily or proudly.
4. (obsolete) Often followed by out: to protuberate or stick out due to being full or swollen; to bulge, to swell.
5. (obsolete) Often followed by out: to cause (something) to bulge, protrude, or swell.

Noun

1. A step or walk done stiffly and with the head held high, often due to haughtiness or pride; affected dignity in walking.
2. An instrument for adjusting the pleats of a ruff.

Noun

1. A beam or rod providing support.
2. An act of strutting (“bracing or supporting (something) by a strut or struts (sense 1); attaching diagonally; bending at a sharp angle”); specifically, deviation (of the spoke of a wheel) from the normal position.

Adj

1. (obsolete) Swelling out due to being full; bulging, protuberant, swollen.
2. (obsolete) Drunk, intoxicated; fou.

Synonyms

swagger

prop

support

prance

brace

boast

show off

cock

flaunt

stanchion

buttress

shore

pillar

sashay

walk

🚶

gaudy

rest

tittup

showy

crossbar

staff

stake

stalk

elegant

bar

crutch

🩼

stroll

post

column

thrust

display

swank

distance piece

proud

gait

parade

move slowly

walk proudly

walk gracefully

ruffle

pompous

pose

pretentious

prop up

puncheon

put on airs

ramble

reinforce

run

sail

saunter

scape

shore up

showing off

stabilizer

stand

stay

step

struggle

substantiate

supporter

surround

suspensory

sustain

sustainer

sustainment

tie rod

travel

tread

truss

uphold

vaunt

walking stick

grab bar

be swaggering

serape lightly

walk slowly with an air

walk stiffly

supporting pillar

walk arrogantly

brace strut

support stand

back guy

buckstay

support pillar

supporting block

supporting column

preen oneself on

center pole

stay bearing

stand leg

supporting strut

strut rod

prop mainstay

support leg

support post

back

🔙

post column

standard

act

backing

backstop

baluster

base

beam

bracing

bracket

bragging

buoy

cane

cantilever

carriage

carry

come

conceited

crow

diagonal brace

fasten

firm up

gallivant

glide

go

handrail

jamb

leg

🦵

major

march

mast

move

ostentatious

pace

peacock

🦚

pedestal

pier

pole

poling

pomposity

Wekî (IPA) tê bilêvkirin

/stɹʌt/

Etîmolojî (English)

Inherited from Middle English: strouten

Inherited from Old English: strūtian

Cognate with danmarkî: strutte

Cognate with nedersaksî: strutt

Cognate with Middle High German: striuzen

Cognate with almanî: strotzen

Cognate with Gothic: 𐌸𐍂𐌿𐍄𐍃𐍆𐌹𐌻𐌻

Cognate with Old Norse: þrútinn

Cognate with îzlendî: strútur

Cognate with norwecî: strut

Cognate with swêdî: strut

In summary

The verb is derived from Middle English strouten, struten (“to bulge, swell; to protrude, stick out; to bluster, threaten; to object forcefully; to create a disturbance; to fight; to display one's clothes in a proud or vain manner”) [and other forms], from Old English strūtian (“to project out; stand out stiffly; to exert oneself, struggle”), from Proto-Germanic *strūtōną, *strūtijaną (“to be puffed up, swell”), from Proto-Indo-European *streudʰ- (“rigid, stiff”), from *(s)ter- (“firm; strong; rigid, stiff”).
The English word is cognate with Danish strutte (“to bulge, bristle”), Low German strutt (“stiff”), Middle High German striuzen (“to bristle; to ruffle”) (modern German strotzen (“to bristle up”), sträußen (obsolete, except in Alemannic)); and compare Gothic 𐌸𐍂𐌿𐍄𐍃𐍆𐌹𐌻𐌻 (þrutsfill, “leprosy”), Old Norse þrútinn (“swollen”).
The noun is derived from the verb. Noun sense 2 (“instrument for adjusting the pleats of a ruff”) appears to be due to a misreading of a 16th-century work which used the word stroout (strouted (“caused (something) to bulge, protrude, or swell; strutted”)).