braggadocio
Meaning
- (countable, uncountable) A braggart.
- (countable, uncountable) Empty boasting.
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Pronounced as (IPA)
/bɹaɡaˈdoːt͡ʃo/
Etymology
After Braggadocchio, boastful character in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene (1590), apparently a pseudo-Italian coinage.
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