thrasonicaladj.
/θrəˈsɒnɪkəl/ Resembling Thraso or his behaviour; given to or marked by boasting; bragging, boastful, vainglorious.
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the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > [adjective] > boastful
boastyc1300
bragc1315
boastfulc1380
great-moutheda1425
boggishc1440
avauntinga1513
windy1513
blazing1549
thrasonical1564
vauntful1590
vousty1596
braggadocian1599
self-boasting1599
braggart1604
braggartly?1611
braggadocio1615
braggeda1616
ampullous1622
rodomontado1645
vapouring1649
thrasonic1657
rodomontade1660
flounder-mouthed1663
fanfaron1670
vaunty1724
boastivea1763
Falstaffian1809
bounceable1831
jactant1839
braggadocious1853
blow-hard1855
loud-mouthed1867
flannel-mouthed1884
bull-mouthed1896
poppy-show1896
Tartarin1903
1564 M. Coverdale tr. N. Ridley in Certain Lett. Martyrs 76 In comparison of this Thrasonicall and glorious ostentation.
a1592 R. Greene Hist. Orlando Furioso (1594) sig. C Knowing hym to be a Thrasonicall mad-cap, they haue sent mee a Gnathonicall companion, to giue him lettice fit for his lips.
a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) v. ii. 30 Cesars Thrasonicall bragge of I came, saw, and ouercome. View more context for this quotation
a1754 T. Carte Gen. Hist. Eng. (1755) IV. 130 (note) It is too thrasonical to deserve any credit.
1877 J. Morley Crit. Misc. 2nd Ser. 374 Ocular arrogance, and a rather too thrasonical complacency.
1893 McCarthy Dictator II. x. 3 Unlike the ordinary soldier of fortune, he was not in the least thrasonical.
Derivatives
thraˈsonically adv. in a thrasonical manner.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > [adverb]
braga1375
boastfullyc1430
jettingly1440
flourishingly?1545
boastingly1552
bragginglya1569
thrasonically1591
vauntingly1593
braggadocio-like1600
vapouringly1653
bouncinglya1677
vauntful1814
braggart-like1826
1591 R. Greene Farewell to Folly sig. C2 Such..as Thrasonically countenance themselues with the title of a souldior.
1629 L. Owen Speculum Iesuiticum (new ed.) 59 These..fathers doe very Thrasonically brag, that their society or order, was diuinely ordained.
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. at Rodomontade To brag thrasonically, to boast like Rodomonte.
1862 H. Beveridge Comprehensive Hist. India II. v. viii. 509 General Stuart..had rashly and thrasonically pledged himself, that..‘the army might and must move’.
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