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noun
A braggart.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: blowhard, blower, blusterer, boaster, braggadocian, braggadocio, braggart, bragger, bully, cacafogo, cacafuego, cracker, gascon, huffcap, huffer, poseur, pseud, vaunter
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Empty boasting.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: big talk
Antonyms: none provided
noun
vain and empty boasting
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: bluster, rodomontade, rhodomontade
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: boast, boasting, self-praise, jactitation
History
After Braggadocchio, a boastful character in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene (1590), apparently a pseudo-Italian coinage.
Across languages
14 source translations are retained for this English entry.
