From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:
gasconade
n : an instance of boastful talk; "his brag is worse than his
fight"; "whenever he won we were exposed to his
gasconade" [syn: brag, bragging, crow, crowing,
vaporing, line-shooting]
v : show off [syn: boast, tout, swash, shoot a line,
brag, gas, blow, bluster, vaunt]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Gasconade \Gas`con*ade"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Gasconaded; p.
pr. & vb. n. Gasconading.]
To boast; to brag; to bluster.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Gasconade \Gas`con*ade"\, 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.
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