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gasconade
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun gasconade has 1 sense
- gasconade(n = noun.communication) brag, bragging, crow, crowing, line-shooting, vaporing - an instance of boastful talk; "his brag is worse than his fight"; "whenever he won we were exposed to his gasconade" is a kind of boast, boasting, jactitation, self-praise
Derived form verb gasconade1
Verb gasconade has 1 sense
- gasconade(v = verb.communication) blow, bluster, boast, brag, gas, shoot a line, swash, tout, vaunt - show off; Array is one way to amplify, exaggerate, hyperbolise, hyperbolize, magnify, overdraw, overstate
Derived form noun gasconade1
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CIDE DICTIONARY
gasconade, n. [F. gasconnade, from Gascon an inhabitant of Gascony, the people of which were noted for boasting.].
A boast or boasting; a vaunt; a bravado; a bragging; braggodocio. Swift. [1913 Webster]
gasconade, v. i.
To boast; to brag; to bluster. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
gasconade
blow, bluff, bluster, bluster and bluff, boast, bounce, brag, bully, cock-a-doodle-doo, crow, draw the longbow, flourish, hector, intimidate, mouth, out-herod Herod, prate, puff, rage, rant, rave, rodomontade, roister, rollick, slang, speak for Buncombe, splutter, sputter, storm, swagger, swashbuckle, vapor, vauntROGET THESAURUS
gasconade
Boasting
N boasting, boast, vaunt, crake, pretense, pretensions, puff, puffery, flourish, fanfaronade, gasconade, blague, bluff, gas, highfalutin, highfaluting, hot air, spread-eagleism, brag, braggardism, bravado, bunkum, buncombe, jactitation, jactancy, bounce, venditation, vaporing, rodomontade, bombast, fine talking, tall talk, magniloquence, teratology, heroics, Chauvinism, exaggeration, vanity, vox et praeterea nihil, much cry and little wool, brutum fulmen, exultation, gloriation, glorification, flourish of trumpets, triumph, boaster, braggart, braggadocio, Gascon, fanfaron, pretender, soi-disant, blower, bluffer, Foxy Quiller, blusterer, charlatan, jack-pudding, trumpeter, puppy, boasting, magniloquent, flaming, Thrasonic, stilted, gasconading, braggart, boastful, pretentious, soi-disant, vainglorious, highfalutin, highfaluting, spread- eagle, elate, elated, jubilant, triumphant, exultant, in high feather, flushed, flushed with victory, cock-a-hoop, on stilts, vaunted, vauntingly, let the galled jade wince, facta non verba.
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