braggadocian

noun

braggadocian

noun

Etymology From braggadocio + -an.

1

Obsolete Someone given to empty boasting; a braggart.

  • neither Greeks nor Romans ever had the fifteenth part of the now known world, nor half of that which was then described. What braggadocians are they and we then!, vol.1, New York Review of Books 2001, pp.296-7

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