fanfaronade

boastful speech or writing all his talk of how he would easily win the boxing match turned out to be so much fanfaronade Synonyms bluster, brag, braggadocio, bull [slang], cockalorum, bombast, 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