fanfaronade

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: fan=fa=ron=ade

CIDE DICTIONARY

fanfaronade, n. [F. fanfaronnade, fr. Sp. fanfarronada. See Fanfaron.].

 A swaggering; vain boasting; ostentation; a bluster.  Swift.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

fanfaronade, n.
1 arrogant talk; brag.
2 a fanfare.

Etymology

F fanfaronnade f. fanfaron braggart (as FANFARE)

THESAURUS

fanfaronade

anniversaries, blazon, bluff, bluster, bluster and bluff, blustering, boast, boastfulness, boasting, bombast, brag, braggadocio, braggartism, bragging, bravado, bravura, brilliancy, bullying, bustle, celebrating, celebration, ceremony, commemoration, conceit, daring, dash, demonstration, display, dramatics, dressing ship, eclat, etalage, exhibition, exhibitionism, false front, fanfare, festivity, figure, flair, flaunt, flaunting, flourish, flourish of trumpets, flurry, fluster, fuss, gasconade, gasconism, hectoring, heroics, histrionics, holiday, intimidation, jactation, jactitation, jubilee, manifestation, marking the occasion, memorialization, memory, observance, ovation, pageant, pageantry, parade, rant, rejoicing, religious rites, remembrance, revel, rite, ritual observance, rodomontade, salute, salvo, sham, show, showing-off, side, solemn observance, solemnization, spectacle, splash, splurge, splutter, sputter, staginess, swagger, swashbucklery, testimonial, testimonial banquet, testimonial dinner, theatrics, toast, tribute, triumph, vanity, vaunt, vauntery, vaunting

ROGET THESAURUS

fanfaronade

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.