Braggadocio
noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 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 vain and empty boasting wordnet
- 3 Empty boasting. countable, uncountable
"He could not endure his airs as a man of fashion, and laughed heartily at his pompous braggadocio stories."
Example
More examples"[…] 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."
Etymology
After Braggadocchio, boastful character in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene (1590), apparently a pseudo-Italian coinage.
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