Braggadocio

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• braggadocio — index jactation, pride, rodomontade Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

• braggadocio — (n.) Spenser s coinage, 1590, as a name for his personification of vainglory, from BRAG (Cf. brag), with augmentative ending by analogy to the Italian words then in vogue in England. In general use by 1594 for an empty swaggerer; of the talk of… …   Etymology dictionary

• braggadocio — [brag΄ə dō′shē ō΄, brag΄ədō′shō] n. pl. braggadocios [coined by SPENSER2 Edmund < BRAG + It ending] 1. a braggart 2. vain, noisy boasting or bragging …   English World dictionary

• braggadocio — noun (plural cios) Etymology: Braggadochio, personification of boasting in Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser Date: 1594 1. braggart 2. a. empty boasting b. arrogant pretension ; …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• braggadocio — braggadocian, adj. /brag euh doh shee oh /, n., pl. braggadocios. 1. empty boasting; bragging. 2. a boasting person; braggart. [after Braggadocchio, boastful character in Spenser s Faerie Queene (1590), appar. a pseudo It coinage based on BRAG] * …   Universalium

• braggadocio — noun /braɡːaˈdoːʧio,ˌbɹæ.ɡəˈdəʊ.ʧɪ.əʊ/ a) A braggart. b) Empty boasting …   Wiktionary

• braggadocio — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun 1. One given to boasting: boaster, brag, braggart, bragger, vaunter. Informal: blowhard. Slang: blower. See PRAISE. 2. An act of boasting: boast, brag, fanfaronade, gasconade, rodomontade, vaunt. Informal: blow1. See… …   English dictionary for students

• braggadocio — brag|ga|do|ci|o [ˌbrægəˈdəuʃiəu US ˈdouʃiou] n [U] especially literary [Date: 1500 1600; Origin: Braggadocchio proud talking character in the poem The Faerie Queen (1590) by Edmund Spenser] proud talk about something that you claim to own, to… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• braggadocio — brag|ga|do|ci|o [ ,brægə douʃiou ] noun uncount LITERARY a proud way of talking about your achievements or possessions that annoys other people …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• braggadocio —  Hollow boasting, after the character Braggadochio in Spenser’s Fairie Queene …   Bryson’s dictionary for writers and editors