Fanfaronade

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  • noun. Bragging or blustering manner or behavior.
  • noun. A fanfare.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A swaggering; vain boasting; ostentation; bluster.
  • To make a flourish or display; bluster.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A swaggering; vain boasting; ostentation; a bluster.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Empty boasting, wildly self-assertive
  • Word Usage
    "—Your aunt, Scrotes persisted, after the merest sniff, has remarked what she calls your fanfaronade."
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