Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A braggart.
- noun Empty or pretentious bragging.
- noun A swaggering, cocky manner.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A boasting fellow; a braggart.
- noun Empty boasting; brag: as, “tiresome braggadocio,”
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A braggart; a boaster; a swaggerer.
- noun Empty boasting; mere brag; pretension.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
braggart . - noun Empty
boasting .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun vain and empty boasting
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Now I had but one fear, namely, that they would unlace me; so that it must be understood that my reply was not uttered in braggadocio but was meant to forestall any possible unlacing.
Chapter 11 2010
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Now I had but one fear: namely, that they would unlace me; so that it must be understood that my reply was not uttered in braggadocio, but was meant to forestall any possible unlacing.
Chapter 11 1915
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I'm no fan of Bill O'Reilly, whose arrogance and smugness appear to be genuine unlike Rush Limbaugh's braggadocio, which is just schtick.
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I'm no fan of Bill O'Reilly, whose arrogance and smugness appear to be genuine unlike Rush Limbaugh's braggadocio, which is just schtick.
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The mean state Greatness of Soul, the excess which may be called braggadocio, and the defect Littleness of Soul.
Ethics 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle
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Often at the end of a day when they had successfully charged a suspect he would lapse into a kind of braggadocio, the thin, frangible coating of allure that he often put on would disappear totally, and his pugilist walk would become more pronounced.
Bottled Spider Gardner, John 2002
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Please do not think that I am falling into that habit of "braggadocio" that I criticized a moment ago.
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That track managed to convey grit without being overloaded with the crotch-grabbing braggadocio which is an all too integral (and boring) part of hip-hop.
Culture | guardian.co.uk Rosie Swash 2010
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That track managed to convey grit without being overloaded with the crotch-grabbing braggadocio which is an all too integral (and boring) part of hip-hop.
Culture | guardian.co.uk Rosie Swash 2010
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Mark Fitzpatrick, chief proliferation analyst at London's International Institute for Strategic Studies, said the move was a show of Iranian "braggadocio" which made an attack on its nuclear sites more likely.
bilby commented on the word braggadocio
A town in Pemiscot County, Missouri, USA.
January 3, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word braggadocio
WHAT?! This word is fantastic.
May 3, 2008
frindley commented on the word braggadocio
This is one of those wonderful words that sounds Italian but is really English.
The New Shorter Oxford gives the etymology as brag or braggart combined with the Italian augmenting suffix "-occio". First(?) used by Spenser as a proper name in Færie Queene (1590).
It also makes the perfect name for this font.
Now consider flautist…
September 16, 2008
Telofy commented on the word braggadocio
“Vivian Charles: Mr. Cod, I’m here against my better judgment considering the callous braggadocio with which you previously gave me the heave-ho.
Emerson Cod: Well, if I did do any ho-heavin’ it was for your own good. There’s a time for callous braggadocio and a time for sensitivity. To the Norwegians, that time is never.
Vivian Charles: I suppose it’s a holdover from their Viking ancestry. It would be difficult to rape and pillage with the subtlety of a humanist.”
—Pushing Daisies, The Norwegians
December 30, 2009