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fanfaronade

[ fan-fer-uh-neyd ]

noun

  1. bragging; bravado; bluster.


fanfaronade

/ ˌfænfərəˈnɑːd /

noun

  1. rare.
    boasting or flaunting behaviour; bluster


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Word History and Origins

Origin of fanfaronade1

First recorded in 1645–55; from French fanfaronnade, from Spanish fanfarronada “bluff, bluster,” derivative of fanfarrón “braggart”; fanfaron, -ade 1

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Word History and Origins

Origin of fanfaronade1

C17: via French from Spanish fanfarronada, from fanfarrón boaster, from Arabic farfār garrulous

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Example Sentences

This was the derisive answer that Clarissa made to this fanfaronade of old Joshua.

Jessie had heard all this fanfaronade, and much more from Mrs. Baxter, but she was not thinking of it now.

He loves bright colours, he easily becomes audacious, overcrowing, full of fanfaronade.

He had now spread himself out on the back seat, his two arms on the sides of the boat, and was showing off with fanfaronade.

There was, no doubt, in the movement a good deal of claret and fanfaronade.

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