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brag·ga·do·ci·o

(brăg′ə-dō′shē-ō′, -shō)

n. pl. brag·ga·do·ci·os

1. A braggart.

a. Empty or pretentious bragging.

b. A swaggering, cocky manner.

[Alteration of Braggadocchio, , the personification of vainglory in The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser, from brag.]

braggadocio

(ˌbræɡəˈdəʊtʃɪˌəʊ)

n, pl -os

1. vain empty boasting

2. a person who boasts; braggart

[C16: from Braggadocchio, name of a boastful character in Spenser's Faerie Queene; probably from braggart + Italian -occhio (augmentative suffix)]

brag•ga•do•ci•o

(ˌbræg əˈdoʊ ʃiˌoʊ)

n., pl. -ci•os.

1. empty boasting; bragging.

2. a boasting person; braggart.

[after boastful character in Spenser's Faerie Queene (1590)]

brag`ga•do′ci•an, adj.

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Noun

braggadocio - vain and empty boasting

rhodomontade, rodomontade, bluster

boast, boasting, jactitation, self-praise - speaking of yourself in superlatives

braggadocio

noun

1. One given to boasting:

boaster, brag, braggart, bragger, vaunter.

Informal: blowhard.

Slang: blower.

2. An act of boasting:

boast, brag, fanfaronade, gasconade, rodomontade, vaunt.

Informal: blow.

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He had set them down as a set of landlubbers and braggadocios, and was disposed to treat them accordingly.

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Pistols, then, at eight o'clock, in the Bois de Vincennes," said Beauchamp, quite disconcerted, not knowing if he was dealing with an arrogant braggadocio or a supernatural being.

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On the following morning, Captain Bonneville purchased a supply of buffalo meat from his braggadocio friends; who, with all their vaporing, were in fact a very forlorn horde, destitute of firearms, and of almost everything that constitutes riches in savage life.

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At these reunions I had to play the part of host--to meet and entertain fat mercantile parvenus who were impossible by reason of their rudeness and braggadocio, colonels of various kinds, hungry authors, and journalistic hacks-- all of whom disported themselves in fashionable tailcoats and pale yellow gloves, and displayed such an aggregate of conceit and gasconade as would be unthinkable even in St.

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I therefore told him, in so many words, that he was a braggadocio, and could not do what he said.

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Here in Gibraltar he corners these educated British officers and badgers them with braggadocio about America and the wonders she can perform