braggadocio

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˌbɹæ.ɡəˈdəʊ.t͡ʃəʊ/    美 /ˌbɹæɡ.əˈdoʊ.ʃiˌoʊ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A braggart. countable,uncountable
    — […] the Gasconads of France, Rodomontads of Spain, Fanfaronads of Italy, and Bragadochio brags of all other countries, could no more astonish his invincible heart, then would the cheeping of a mouse a bear robbed of her whelps.
  2. Empty boasting. countable,uncountable
    — He could not endure his airs as a man of fashion, and laughed heartily at his pompous braggadocio stories.

词形变化

braggadocios plural braggadocioes archaic,plural braggadocii plural,rare braggadose alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

衍生词
braggadocian
相关词
braggadocious machismo

词源

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