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braggart

English

Etymology

From French bragard (“bragging, flaunting, vain", also "a showy, arrogant individual”), from Middle French braguer (“to boast, brag”). No firm relation to English brag has been established.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?b?æ???t/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /?b?æ??t/
  • Hyphenation: brag?gart

Noun

braggart (plural braggarts)

  1. Someone who constantly brags or boasts. [from late 16th c.]

Synonyms

  • braggard
  • bragger
  • See also Thesaurus:braggart

Related terms

  • brag
  • bragging (noun)
  • braggingly

Translations

Adjective

braggart (comparative more braggart, superlative most braggart)

  1. Characterized by boasting; boastful.

Translations

References

Further reading

  • boasting on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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braggadocian

English

Etymology

From braggadocio +? -an.

Noun

braggadocian (plural braggadocians)

  1. (obsolete) Someone given to empty boasting; a braggart.
    • , vol.1, New York Review of Books 2001, pp.296-7:
      neither Greeks nor Romans ever had the fifteenth part of the now known world, nor half of that which was then described. What braggadocians are they and we then!

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