Definitions
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- n. boastfulness; tendency to brag
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. Boastfulness; act of bragging.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Boastfulness; vain ostentation: as, “what braggardism is this?” Also braggartism.
Etymologies
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braggart + -ism
Examples
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_As You Like It_ to the date of the _Winter's Tale_, and which no later poet had ventured to recombine in the same play till our own time had given us, in the author of _Tragaldabas_, one who could alternate without confusing the woodland courtship of Eliseo and Caprina with the tavern braggardism of Grif and Minotoro.
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When the victors, magnifying the number of their adversaries with instinctive braggardism, spoke of about five hundred men, everybody protested against such a low estimate.
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We frequently hear boys crying out, with all the braggardism of a practiced gambler, "_I'll bet_" so and so.
qms commented on the word braggardism
His manner's a comical bastardism,
A union of unction and braggardism,
But soon comes the hour
The clown will take power
And shtick become serious blackguardism.
January 14, 2017