Braggadocian

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Someone given to empty boasting; a braggart. obsolete

    "neither Greeks nor Romans ever had the fifteenth part of the now known world, nor half of that which was then described. What braggadocians are they and we then!"

Example

More examples

"neither Greeks nor Romans ever had the fifteenth part of the now known world, nor half of that which was then described. What braggadocians are they and we then!"

Etymology

From braggadocio + -an.

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