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Word Meanings - BRAGGADOCIO - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A braggart; a boaster; a swaggerer. Dryden. 2. Empty boasting; mere brag; pretension.

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  • GASCONADER
    A great boaster; a blusterer.
  • BOMBAST
    a doublet of cotton; hence, padding, wadding, fustian. See 1. Originally, cotton, or cotton wool. A candle with a wick of bombast. Lupton. 2. Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing; padding. How now, my sweet
  • FUSTIAN
    It. fustagno, fr. LL. fustaneum, fustanum; cf. Pr. fustani, Sp. 1. A kind of coarse twilled cotton or cotton and linen stuff, including corduroy, velveteen, etc. 2. An inflated style of writing; a kind of writing in which high- sounding words are
  • BLUSTERINGLY
    In a blustering manner.
  • GASCONADE
    A boast or boasting; a vaunt; a bravado; a bragging; braggodocio. Swift.
  • BLUSTEROUS
    Inclined to bluster; given to blustering; blustering. Motley.
  • FUSTIANIST
    A writer of fustian. Milton.
  • BLUSTER
    Etym: 1. To blow fitfully with violence and noise, as wind; to be windy and boisterous, as the weather. And ever-threatening storms Of Chaos blustering round. Milton. 2. To talk with noisy violence; to swagger, as a turbulent or boasting person;
  • BLUSTERING
    1. Exhibiting noisy violence, as the wind; stormy; tumultuous. A tempest and a blustering day. Shak. 2. Uttering noisy threats; noisy and swaggering; boisterous. "A blustering fellow." L'Estrange.
  • BRAGGADOCIO
    1. A braggart; a boaster; a swaggerer. Dryden. 2. Empty boasting; mere brag; pretension.
  • RHODOMONTADE
    See RODOMONTADE
  • POMPOSITY
    The quality or state of being pompous; pompousness. Thackeray.
  • BLUSTERER
    One who, or that which, blusters; a noisy swaggerer.
  • BOMBASTRY
    Swelling words without much meaning; bombastic language; fustian. Bombastry and buffoonery, by nature lofty and light, soar highest of all. Swift.
  • RHODOMONTADER
    See RODOMONTADOR
  • BOMBASTIC; BOMBASTICAL
    Characterized by bombast; highsounding; inflated. -- Bom*bas"tic*al*ly, adv. A theatrical, bombastic, windy phraseology. Burke. Syn. -- Turgid; tumid; pompous; grandiloquent.

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