braggadocio

braggadocio

noun

Definition of BRAGGADOCIO

1

boastful speech or writing <his braggadocio hid the fact that he felt personally inadequate>

Synonyms bluster, brag, braggadocio, bull [slang], cockalorum, fanfaronade, gas, gasconade, grandiloquence, hot air, magniloquence, rant, rodomontade (also rhodomontade)

Related Words oratory, rhapsody, rhetoric; pomposity, turgidity, wind; bloviation, verbosity, windiness; babble, blab, chatter, drivel, gabble, gibber, gibberish, jabber, prattle; jawing, patter, prating, yammering; egotism, self-conceit, self-importance, swagger, vaunt

2

someone who boasts <the swaggering braggadocio is a stock figure of American folklore, with Davy Crockett and Mike Fink being prime examples>

Synonyms blower, blowhard, boaster, brag, braggadocio, bragger, cockalorum, cracker [chiefly dialect], gascon, gasconader, swaggerer, vaunter

Related Words blusterer, cock; self-advertiser, self-dramatizer, self-promoter