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braggadocio, n. (and a.)|brægəˈdəʊʃɪəʊ|
Also 6–8 braggadoche, 7–8 bragodocia, brahgadochio, bragado-, braggadoccio, -chio, -sier.
[A name formed from brag after the analogy of Italian augmentatives in -occhio, -occio, given by Spenser to his personification of Brag, Vainglory.
(Formerly also pronounced |-kɪəʊ|, which was perhaps Spenser's usage.)
1590Spenser F.Q. ii. iii. Argt., Vaine Braggadocchio, getting Guyons horse, is made the scorne of knighthood trew.]
1. An empty, idle boaster; a swaggerer.
1594Nashe Unfort. Trav. 15 These..goose-quill Braggadoches were mere cowards and crauens. 1618Raleigh Rem. (1644) 233 Whatsoever the Bragadochio, the Spanish Ambassadour saith. 1714Wentworth Papers (ed. Cartwright) 430 They did Web wrong that said he was a braggadosier. 1759H. Walpole Corr. 343 (ed. 3) III. 321 You are spies, if you are not bragadochios. 1832Carlyle in Fraser's Mag. V. 382 He..had much of the sycophant, alternating with the braggadocio.
2. The talk of such a person, empty vaunting.
a1734North Exam. Pref. 14 Without a Braggadocio this may be styled a New Work. 1822Southey Lett. (1856) III. 358, I found..that this was half blunder, half braggadocio. 1878H. Smart Play or Pay i. 8 Though his assertions might appear all braggadocio, it was not so.
B. attrib. or adj.; and in comb. as braggadocio-like adv.
1600J. Lane Tom Tel-troth 126 And makes them brave it braggadochio-like. a1613Overbury A Wife, etc. (1638) 92 A Braggadochio Welshman. 1829Carlyle in For. Rev. & Cont. Misc. III. 123 [He] evidently writes with great gusto, in a lively braggadocio manner. 1862Ainsworth Tower Lond. (1864) 279 Xit kept up his braggadocio air and gait. |