Gascon
noun
a native of Gascony, France, the inhabitants of which were reputedly very boastful.
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Gascon
American
[gas-kuhn]
/ ˈgæs kən /
noun
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a native of Gascony, France, the inhabitants of which were reputedly very boastful.
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(lowercase) a boaster or braggart.
adjective
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pertaining to Gascony or its people.
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(lowercase) boastful; bragging.
Gascon
1
British
/ ˈɡæskən /
noun
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a native or inhabitant of Gascony
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the dialect of French spoken in Gascony
adjective
gascon
2
British
/ ˈɡæskən /
noun
Etymology
Origin of Gascon
1325–75; Middle English gascoyne, gascoun < Old French, ultimately < Latin Vascōnēs the inhabitants of the Basque country and adjacent areas
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A recent study by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and at the University of California, Berkeley, found that Krasner and Bragg are more well known than Gascon, Schmidt, or Boudin.
From Slate ● Nov. 7, 2025
“Our economy in Canada was really built north-south,” said Montreal Port Authority Chief Executive Julie Gascon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2025
Polls show Gascon trailing Hochman by as much as 30 percentage points, and a Times analysis of campaign finances shows the challenger has raised significantly more money than the district attorney.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2024
"None of this information has been confirmed," Gascon - the most senior prosecutor in LA Country - told a news conference.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2024
"What the devil has brought you here at this hour?" said the barber, shutting his door, while the Gascon looked towards the end of the alley as though he were trying to see someone.
From The Barber of Paris by Charles Paul de Kock
You know, Comrades, I only said that en gascon, and to afford him the greater pleasure in our rencontre.
From Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume II by Charles James Lever
Nearly as large as Hackett's Falstaff, he was as much a gascon as the hero of the Merry Wives of Windsor.
From Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field Southern Adventure in Time of War. Life with the Union Armies, and Residence on a Louisiana Plantation by Thomas Wallace Knox
A wit without sense, without fancy, a beau, Like a parrot he chatters, and struts like a crow; A peacock in pride, in grimace a baboon, In courage a hind, in conceit a gascon.
From History of English Humour, Vol. 2 by Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange
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