strut

1. (intransitive) Of a peacock or other fowl: to stand or walk stiffly, with the tail erect and spread out.Examples: "Hark, hark, I heare, the ſtraine of ſtrutting Chanticlere cry cockadidle-dowe."; "The pheasant strutteth about in the midst of flowers; / The turtle-dove cooeth, and the nightingale warbleth from the cypress."; "He thought that whenne Thanksgyving came he'd looke soe payle & thynne, / He colde avoid ye usual role ye Turkye strutteth inne."intransitive

2. (intransitive, by extension, also figuratively) To walk haughtily or proudly with one's head held high.Examples: "He strutted about the yard, thinking himself master of all he surveyed."; "[O]h, I ſhould remember him: do's he not hold vp his head (as it were?) and ſtrut in his gate?"; "[...] I trow it is enough to make a man forswear the very mother that bore him, and to wish that he had never had one, when one is cooped up in a gloomy hole like this, to watch a door within which strutteth a jackanapes too proud to speak civil to those that approach him."Synonyms: swagger, high-sidealsobroadlyfigurativelyintransitive

3. (transitive, by extension) To walk across or on (a stage or other place) haughtily or proudly.Examples: "Taking you and your colleagues as the model of modern times, I should almost fear that the John Bull of former days was as different from the John Bull of the present time, as is a broad-shouldered, fearless Highlandman from the dapper cockney who struts the Park by the side of his fellow-milliner."; "The frantic father struts the stage, / And swells with true sublimity of rage / Against his son, who leads a wanton life, / And scorns the offer of a dowried wife."; "Still garbed in notions wont to gird / Minds in the reign of George the Third, / He strutteth an embodied tameness / In a sober suit of sameness."broadlytransitive

4. (intransitive, obsolete) Often followed by out: to protuberate or stick out due to being full or swollen; to bulge, to swell.Examples: "Sometimes [the clitoris] groweth to such a length that it hangeth without the cleft like a mans member, especially when it is fretted with the touch of the cloaths, and so strutteth and groweth to a rigiditie as doth the yarde [penis] of a man."; "If the right breaſt ſwell and ſtrut out the Boy is well, if it flag it is a ſign of miſcarriage, judge the ſame of the Girle by the left breaſt, when it is ſunk, or round and hard, the firſt ſignifies abortion to be near, the other health and ſafety both of the Mother and the Child."; "The Pow'r appeas'd, with winds ſuffic'd the ſail, / The bellying canvas ſtrutted with the gale; [...]"intransitiveobsolete

5. (transitive, obsolete) Often followed by out: to cause (something) to bulge, protrude, or swell.Examples: "[H]e gains the glitt'ring prize, / And ſtruts the gaudy food of gazing eyes, / A thing—that oft his Footmen may deſpiſe."Synonyms: distendobsoletetransitive