braggadocio

Definition

A braggart.

Etymology

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

Example Sentences

• "[…] 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."
• "Having received an Inſult from Otho H. W. Luckett, for which he refuſed to make the Reparation demanded―I do declare him a Coward, a Bragadochio, and a Fellow, at whom the ☞ Finger of Contempt ſhould always be pointed."
• "He could not endure his airs as a man of fashion, and laughed heartily at his pompous braggadocio stories."

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