fanfaronaden.
1. Boisterous or arrogant language, boastful assertion, brag; ostentation; an instance of this.
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the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > [noun]
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gloriation?1504
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braggery?1571
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braggadocianism1624
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jactitation1632
word-braving1642
rodomontadea1648
fanfaronade1652
superbiloquence1656
vapouring1656
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gasconade1709
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vauntingness1727
braggadocioa1734
Gasconism1744
Gascoigny1754
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gostering1763
penny trumpet1783
cockalorum?a1792
boastfulness1810
vauntage1818
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kompology1854
loud-mouthing1858
skite1860
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boosterism1926
the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > [noun] > a boast
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avauntc1380
advancement?a1400
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blow1684
gab1737
vaunting1793
windy1933
line-shoot1941
the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > [noun]
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vantation1637
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fastuosity1656
finery1656
parade1656
phantastry1656
ostentatiousness1658
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pretension1706
braw1724
swell1724
showiness1730
ostensibility1775
fanfaronade1784
display1816
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show-off1846
flare1847
peacockism1854
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tigerishness1869
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flamboyance1891
peacockishness1892
flamboyancy1896
swankiness1920
plushness1949
glitziness1982
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1652 T. Urquhart Εκσκυβαλαυρον 73 The Gasconads of France, Rodomontads of Spain, Fanfaronads of Italy.
1713 Swift Pref. Introd. Hist. Reform. 7 The B——p copied this Proceeding from the Fanfaronnade of Monsieur Bouffleurs.
1784 R. Bage Barham Downs II. 259 He damned her ingratitude; She, his fanfarronade.
1789 H. L. Piozzi Observ. Journey France I. 24 [It] diverted me..by the fanfaronades that it contained.
1814 Scott Diary 24 Aug. in J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life. Scott (1837) III. vii. 229 He seems to..act..like a chief, without the fanfaronade of the character.
1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. xii. 242 They..outvied each other in impossible fanfarronades.
2. = fanfare n.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > music on specific instrument > [noun] > wind music > fanfare
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flourish1597
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fanfaronade1812
fanfarrado1824
fanfaron1848
fanfarade1883
1812 Examiner 12 Oct. 652/2 The fanfarronade..of the favourite Hussars.
1861 E. D. Cook Paul Foster's Daughter i, So much by way of a fanfaronade before the showman pulls the strings.
Derivatives
ˌfanfaroˈnade v. (intr.) to bluster, swagger.
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1878 P. Bayne Puritan Revol. v. 157 His professed contempt for impossibility was useful only for fanfaronading purposes.
ˌfanfaroˈnading n. and adj.
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the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > blustering or bravado > [noun]
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hectorism1672
huffiness1678
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bounce1714
bravadoism1833
fanfaronading1837
bush1840
huffishness1841
swashbuckling1888
bucko1909
the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > blustering or bravado > [adjective]
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Bobadilish1832
Bobadilian1837
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swashbucklering1884
swaggery1886
blokeish1920
blokey1938
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. i. viii. 58 With ceremonial evolution and manœuvre, with farfaronading..they made oath..to stand faithfully by one another.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. vi. viii. 422 Fanfaronading Emigrants.
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