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Gasconade

verb
(past & past part. gasconaded; pres. part. gasconading)
1.
Show off.  Synonyms: blow, bluster, boast, brag, gas, shoot a line, swash, tout, vaunt.






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"Gasconade" Quotes from Famous Books



... lucrative profession, and labour therein with something not far short of enthusiasm, a cry from the opposite party who are content when they have enough, and like to look on and enjoy in the meanwhile, savours a little of bravado and gasconade. And yet this should not be. Idleness so called, which does not consist in doing nothing, but in doing a great deal not recognised in the dogmatic formularies of the ruling class, has as good a right to ...
— Virginibus Puerisque • Robert Louis Stevenson

... glances. It seemed indeed to bring the thought of war very near when this sort of talk went on. The Abbe was thoughtfully stroking his chin, debating within himself whether all this was a bit of gasconade on the part of these middies, or whether it represented the actual facts of the case. Madame ...
— French and English - A Story of the Struggle in America • Evelyn Everett-Green



Words linked to "Gasconade" :   boasting, gloat, hyperbolize, overdraw, self-praise, hyperbolise, amplify, triumph, exaggerate, jactitation, magnify, puff, overstate



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