rodomontade

noun

1. vainglorious boasting or bragging; pretentious, blustering talk.

adjective

2. bragging.

verb (used without object), rod·o·mon·tad·ed, rod·o·mon·tad·ing.

3. to boast; brag; talk big.

noun

1. 1. boastful words or behaviour; bragging
   2. (as modifier)rodomontade behaviour

verb

2. (intr) to boast, bluster, or rant

n.

1610s (earlier rodomontado, 1590s), “vain boasting like that of Rodomonte,” character in Ariosto’s “Orlando Furioso.” In dialectal Italian the name means literally “one who rolls (away) the mountain.”