Hypertext Webster Gateway: "braggadocio"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Braggadocio \Brag`ga*do"cio\, n. [From Braggadocchio, a boastful
character in Spenser's ``Fa["e]rie Queene.'']
1. A braggart; a boaster; a swaggerer. --Dryden.
2. Empty boasting; mere brag; pretension.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
braggadocio
n : vain and empty boasting [syn: {bluster}, {rodomontade}, {rhodomontade}]
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