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Braggadocio

//bɹaɡaˈdoːt͡ʃo// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A braggart. countable, uncountable

    "[…] the Gasconads of France, Rodomontads of Spain, Fanfaronads of Italy, and Bragadochio brags of all other countries, could no more astonish his invincible heart, then would the cheeping of a mouse a bear robbed of her whelps."

  2. 2
    vain and empty boasting wordnet
  3. 3
    Empty boasting. countable, uncountable

    "He could not endure his airs as a man of fashion, and laughed heartily at his pompous braggadocio stories."

Etymology

After Braggadocchio, boastful character in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene (1590), apparently a pseudo-Italian coinage.

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