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adj
Of or pertaining to exaggeration or extravagant boasting; bombastic.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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name
A small city in Gasconade County, Missouri, United States, named after the Gasconade River.
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name
the Gasconade River, a river in Missouri which flows into the Missouri River near the above town.
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noun
Boastful talk.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Alternative spelling of gasconade.
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Usage: alt-of, alternative
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verb
To talk boastfully.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: derogatory, obsolete
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Synonyms: bluster, boast
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verb
Alternative spelling of gasconade.
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Usage: alt-of, alternative
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noun
an instance of boastful talk
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: brag, bragging, crow, crowing, vaporing, line-shooting
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Broader terms: boast, boasting, self-praise, jactitation
verb
show off
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: boast, tout, swash, shoot a line, brag, gas, blow, bluster, vaunt
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Broader terms: overstate, exaggerate, overdraw, hyperbolize, hyperbolise, magnify, amplify
Narrower terms: puff, gloat, triumph, crow
History
From French gasconnade, from Gascon (“native of Gascony”) + -ade, equivalent to Gascon (“native of Gascony”) + -ade, literally "to talk like a Gascon". See French gasconnade.
Across languages
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