swank

Meanings

Adjective

• Fashionably elegant, posh.

Noun

• A fashionably elegant person.
• Ostentation; bravado.

Verb

• To swagger, to show off.

Origin

• From dialectal swank, perhaps from an unrecorded Old English root, derived from Proto-Germanic *swankijaną or from Proto-Germanic *swankaz, related to the Scots swank and the Middle High German swanken, modern German schwanken ("to sway").