gasconade

[gas-kuh-neyd]

noun

1. extravagant boasting; boastful talk.

verb (used without object)

gasconaded, gasconading 

1. to boast extravagantly; bluster.

gasconade

/ ˌɡæskəˈneɪd /

noun

1. boastful talk, bragging, or bluster

verb

1. (intr) to boast, brag, or bluster

Other Word Forms

• gasconader noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of gasconade¹

First recorded in 1650–60; from French gasconnade, derivative of gasconner “to boast, chatter”; Gascon, -ade ¹

Word History and Origins

Origin of gasconade¹

C18: from French gasconnade, from gasconner to chatter, boast like a _Gascon

Example Sentences

“I found more champions than anyone in history,” Van Pelt says without a hint of gasconading.

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“Your gasconade and cache of catchphrases, so limiting and reflexive, escalate the emasculation of you by a world whose patience is in nuclear peril,” says the book’s title character.

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For the rest, I calmly went on with my eulogy on courage; only that, instead of ludicrous gasconading, which directly betrays the coward, I purposely expressed myself in words at once cool, clear and firm.

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But those, who know anything of our history or situation, must have the utmost contempt for all these gasconades.

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No one excelled him in ingenuity, eloquence, bombast, gasconade or dialectic skill.

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