rodomontade
/ˌrɒdə(ʊ)mɒnˈteɪd
/noun [mass noun]
Boastful or inflated talk or behaviour: the corrupting effect the vogue for macho rodomontade may have even upon a civilized man...
- Since that moment, the football gods punished the team's rodomontade with injuries, embarrassment, and a 2000 flameout.
- Accomplished veterans are punished for such rodomontade: What do we suppose will happen to he who taunts the defending champions in his very first career start?
- The football gods take a dim view of boasting after victory; boasting after defeat is a new low in rodomontade.
verb [no object] archaic
Talk boastfully: he soon finds out there’s nothing to be gained by rodomontading...
- The song, which boasts that the club is ‘Super Bowl bound,’ played nonstop in Jacksonville after the 62-7 game - and it's been downhill ever since as the football gods punish the rodomontading franchise.
Origin
Early 17th century: from French, from obsolete Italian rodomontada, from Italian rodomonte, from the name of a boastful character in the medieval Orlando epics.
Rhymes
- peripatoid
- peripatos
- peripatus
- peripediment
- peri-peri
- peripetalous
- peripeteia
- peripety
- peripharyngeal
- peripherad
- peripheral
- peripheral edema
- peripheralisation
- peripheralise
- peripheralism
- peripheralist
- peripherality
- peripheralization
- peripheralize
- peripherally
- peripheral nerve
- peripheral nervous system
- in the middle of
- in the name of
- in the nature of