braggadocio

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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After Braggadocchio, a boastful character in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene (1590), apparently a pseudo-Italian coinage.

This thought alone gave him the braggadocio necessary to success. — What Will People Say? A Novel, Rupert Hughes
This may sound like braggadocio, but it is a fact. — Old Times on the Upper Mississippi: The Recollections of a Steamboat Pilot from 1854 to 1863, George Byron Merrick
"There's no will, and I'm the heir," he said, with sullen braggadocio. — The Perpetual Curate, Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

bluster, rodomontade, rhodomontade

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