Braggadocio Definition

brăgə-dōshē-ō, -shō
braggadocios
noun
braggadocios
A braggart.
Webster's New World
Vain, noisy boasting or bragging.
Webster's New World
A swaggering, cocky manner.
American Heritage
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Other Word Forms of Braggadocio

Noun

Singular:
braggadocio
Plural:
braggadocios

Origin of Braggadocio

  • Alteration of Braggadocchio , the personification of vainglory in The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser from brag

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • After Braggadocchio, boastful character in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene (1590), apparently a pseudo-Italian coinage.

    From Wiktionary

Braggadocio Sentence Examples

  • There's a fine but definitive line between being a braggadocio and healthy self-promotion.

  • Polite, considerate with none of the usual brash braggadocio we're used to.

  • Let me regress a little bit and let you know why this little bit of braggadocio was put on paper.

  • It contains, however, some very fine lines, in particular, a defence of the stage and some heroics put into the mouth of a braggadocio.

  • Wolfe Tone, who a few months before had patronizingly described him to Talleyrand as "a respectable old man whose patriotism has been known for thirty years," was now disgusted by the lying braggadocio with which Tandy persuaded the French authorities that he was a personage of great wealth and influence in Ireland, at whose appearance 30,000 men would rise in arms. Tandy was not, however, lacking in courage.

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