gasconade
gas·con·ade (g
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n.
Boastfulness; bravado.
[French gasconnade, from Gascon, Gascon; see Gascon.]
gascon·ade v.
gascon·ader n.
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| Noun | 1. | gasconade – an instance of boastful talk; “his brag is worse than his fight”; “whenever he won we were exposed to his gasconade” |
| Verb | 1. | gasconade – show off
puff – speak in a blustering or scornful manner; “A puffing kind of man”
exaggerate, hyperbolise, hyperbolize, overstate, amplify, magnify, overdraw – to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth; “tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South’ imagery”
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