strut

Meaning

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.

swagger

distance piece

move slowly

walk proudly

walk gracefully

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

post column

diagonal brace

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/stɹʌt/

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”)).