braggadocian
English edit
Etymology edit
From braggadocio + -an.
Noun edit
braggadocian (plural braggadocians)
- (obsolete) Someone given to empty boasting; a braggart.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:, vol.1, New York Review of Books 2001, pp.296-7:
- 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!