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bravado

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bra=va=do

CIDE DICTIONARY

bravadon. [Sp. bravada, bravata, boast, brag: cf. F. bravade. See Brave.].
     Boastful and threatening behavior; a boastful menace.  [1913 Webster]
    "In spite of our host's bravado."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

bravado, n. a bold manner or a show of boldness intended to impress.

Etymology
Sp. bravata f. bravo: cf. BRAVE, -ADO

THESAURUS

bravado

adventuresomeness, adventurousness, arrogance, audaciousness, audacity, balls, bluff, bluster, bluster and bluff, blustering, boast, boastfulness, boasting, bold front, boldness, bombast, brag, braggadocio, braggartism, bragging, brash bearing, brashness, brassiness, bravura, brazenness, bullying, bumptiousness, bustle, cheekiness, cockiness, conceit, contempt, contemptuousness, daring, daringness, defial, defiance, defying, derision, derring-do, despite, disdain, disregard, enterprise, fanfaronade, flurry, fluster, foolhardiness, front, fuss, gasconade, gasconism, hectoring, heroics, impertinence, impudence, insolence, intimidation, jactation, jactitation, machismo, overboldness, pertness, pretentiousness, rant, rodomontade, sauciness, self-assurance, side, splutter, sputter, swagger, swashbucklery, vanity, vaunt, vauntery, vaunting, venturesomeness, venturousness

ROGET THESAURUS

bravado

Boasting

N boasting, boast, vaunt, crake, pretense, pretensions, puff, puffery, flourish, fanfaronade, gasconade, blague, bluff, gas, highfalutin, highfaluting, hot air, spread-eagleism, brag, braggardism, bravado, bunkum, buncombe, jactitation, jactancy, bounce, venditation, vaporing, rodomontade, bombast, fine talking, tall talk, magniloquence, teratology, heroics, Chauvinism, exaggeration, vanity, vox et praeterea nihil, much cry and little wool, brutum fulmen, exultation, gloriation, glorification, flourish of trumpets, triumph, boaster, braggart, braggadocio, Gascon, fanfaron, pretender, soi-disant, blower, bluffer, Foxy Quiller, blusterer, charlatan, jack-pudding, trumpeter, puppy, boasting, magniloquent, flaming, Thrasonic, stilted, gasconading, braggart, boastful, pretentious, soi-disant, vainglorious, highfalutin, highfaluting, spread- eagle, elate, elated, jubilant, triumphant, exultant, in high feather, flushed, flushed with victory, cock-a-hoop, on stilts, vaunted, vauntingly, let the galled jade wince, facta non verba.


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