different between braggart vs braggadocio

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

English

Etymology

After Braggadocchio, boastful character in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene (1590), apparently a pseudo-Italian coinage.

Pronunciation

• (Italianate) IPA^(key): /b?a?a?do?t??o/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b?æ.???d??.t????/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?b?æ?.??do?.?i?o?/
• Hyphenation: brag?ga?do?ci?o

Noun

braggadocio (countable and uncountable, plural braggadocios or braggadocioes or braggadocii)

1. A braggart.

   Synonyms: blowhard; see also Thesaurus:braggart
2. Empty boasting.

   Synonym: big talk

   • 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 6:

     He could not endure his airs as a man of fashion, and laughed heartily at his pompous braggadocio stories.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:braggadocio.

Related terms

• braggadocious

Translations

See also

• machismo

Further reading

• braggadocio on Wikipedia.Wikipedia