cockalorum

1 boastful speech or writing a boxer who was as famous for his prefight cockalorum as for his knockouts in the ring Synonyms of cockalorum bluster, brag, braggadocio, bull [slang], bombast, fanfaronade, gas, gasconade, grandiloquence, hot air, magniloquence, rant, rodomontade (also rhodomontade)Words Related to cockalorum 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 Muhammad Ali's reputation as boxing's most colorful cockalorum Synonyms of cockalorum blower, blowhard, boaster, brag, braggadocio, bragger, braggart, cracker [chiefly dialect], gascon, gasconader, swaggerer, vaunterWords Related to cockalorum blusterer, cock; self-advertiser, self-dramatizer, self-promoter