braggadocio

braggadocio [brag-uh-doh-shee-oh] ExamplesWord Origin noun, plural brag·ga·do·ci·os.

1. empty boasting; bragging.
2. a boasting person; braggart.

Origin of braggadocio after Braggadocchio, boastful character in Spenser’s Faerie Queene (1590), apparently a pseudo-Italian coinage based on brag Related formsbrag·ga·do·ci·an, adjective Related Words for braggadocios windbag, boaster, blowhard, brag, bragger, show-off, bombast, gasconade, rodomontade, vaunt Examples from the Web for braggadocios Historical Examples of braggadocios

He had set them down as a set of landlubbers and braggadocios, and was disposed to treat them accordingly.

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Washington Irving

British Dictionary definitions for braggadocios braggadocio noun plural -os

1. vain empty boasting
2. a person who boasts; braggart

Word Origin for braggadocio C16: from Braggadocchio, name of a boastful character in Spenser’s Faerie Queene; probably from braggart + Italian -occhio (augmentative suffix) Word Origin and History for braggadocios braggadocio n.

Spenser’s coinage, 1590, as a name for his personification of vainglory, from brag, with augmentative ending by analogy to the Italian words then in vogue in England. In general use by 1594 for “an empty swaggerer;” of the talk of such persons, from 1734.