To swagger. Buffer. A swaggerer. Obs.

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1787.  

        Good news, brother dealers in metre and prose.
The world has turned buffer, and coming to blows.
Maryland Journal, Dec. 21: from the American Museum.    

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1799.  If we were as fond of fighting France as ever buffing Jackson, or big Ben, or the tinker of Cornwall were of entering the lists.—The Aurora, Phila., Aug. 23.

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