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Gasconade

noun
1.
An instance of boastful talk.  Synonyms: brag, bragging, crow, crowing, line-shooting, vaporing.  "Whenever he won we were exposed to his gasconade"






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"Gasconade" Quotes from Famous Books



... crew had by this time started and taken up the planks of the cabin floor, and had stowed themselves well down into the run, so as to be as much out of harm's way as they could manage, but there was neither fear nor flinching amongst them; and although totally devoid of all gasconade—on the contrary, they had taken all the precautions men could do in their situation, to keep out of harm's way, or at least to lessen the danger—there they sat, silent, and cool, and determined. "I shall never undervalue ...
— Tom Cringle's Log • Michael Scott

... effort, a part of the poetry of life. It is so already to many of us, and has been so to the noblest Englishmen since we have had a literature. If Henry V's speech at Agincourt is the splendid gasconade of a royal freebooter, there is no false ring in the scene where John of Gaunt takes leave of his banished son; nor in Sir Walter Scott's 'Breathes there a man with soul so dead,' etc. 'If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.' We ...
— Outspoken Essays • William Ralph Inge



Words linked to "Gasconade" :   jactitation, self-praise, overstate, amplify, exaggerate, hyperbolise, hyperbolize, triumph, overdraw, magnify, puff, gloat, boasting



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