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Gasconade   Listen
noun
Gasconade  n.  A boast or boasting; a vaunt; a bravado; a bragging; braggodocio.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Gasconade" Quotes from Famous Books



... taught in the old way."—Grammar, p. 12. What his "old way" was, does not appear. Doubtless something sufficiently bad. And as to his new way, I shall hereafter have occasion to show that that is sufficiently bad also. But to this gasconade the simple-minded have given credit—because the author showed certificates that testified to his great success, and called him "amiable and modest!" But who can look into the book, or into the writer's pretensions in regard to his predecessors, and conceive the merit which has made him—"preeminent ...
— The Grammar of English Grammars • Goold Brown



Words linked to "Gasconade" :   vaporing, line-shooting, jactitation, boasting, shoot a line, self-praise, hyperbolize, crowing, vaunt, magnify, swash, blow, bluster, crow



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