braggart
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
braggart (plural braggarts)
- Someone who constantly brag#Verb|brags or boast#Verb|boasts. [from late 16th c.]
- c. 1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act IV, scene iii], page 148 ↗, column 1:
- O I could play the woman with mine eyes, / And Braggart with my tongue.
- braggard
- bragger
- See also Thesaurus:braggart
- French: bravache, fanfaron, fier-à-bras, hâbleur, matamore, rodomont, vantard
- German: Angeber, Angeberin
- Italian: fanfarone, ballista
- Portuguese: fanfarrão, gabarola
- Russian: хвасту́н
- Spanish: fanfarria, fanfarrón, fantasma, baladrón, bravucón, matasiete
braggart
- Characterized by boasting#Noun|boasting; boastful.
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