braggadocio

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: brag=ga=do=ci=o

CIDE DICTIONARY

braggadocio, n. [From Braggadocchio, a boastful character in Spenser's “Faërie Queene.”].

•  A braggart; a boaster; a swaggerer.  Dryden.  [1913 Webster]
•  Empty boasting; mere brag; pretension.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

braggadocio, n. empty boasting; a boastful manner of speech and behaviour.

Etymology

Braggadochio, a braggart in Spenser's Faerie Queene, f. BRAG or BRAGGART + It. augment. suffix - occio

ROGET THESAURUS

braggadocio

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.