cockalorum
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noun \ˌkä-kə-ˈlȯr-əm\ plural cock·a·lo·rums
Definition of COCKALORUM
1
: a boastful and self-important person
2
: leapfrog
3
: boastful talk
Examples of COCKALORUM
- <a boxer who was as famous for his prefight cockalorum as for his knockouts in the ring>
- <Muhammad Ali's reputation as boxing's most colorful cockalorum.>
Origin of COCKALORUM
probably modification of obsolete Dutch dialect kockeloeren to crow, of imitative origin
First Known Use: circa 1715
Related to COCKALORUM
- Synonyms
- bluster, brag, braggadocio, bull [slang], bombast, fanfaronade, gas, gasconade, grandiloquence, hot air, magniloquence, rant, rodomontade (also rhodomontade)
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