rodomontade

American  

[rod-uh-mon-teyd, -tahd, -muhn-, roh-duh-] / ˌrɒd ə mɒnˈteɪd, -ˈtɑd, -mən-, ˌroʊ də- /

noun

1. vainglorious boasting or bragging; pretentious, blustering talk.

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adjective

1. bragging.

verb (used without object)

rodomontaded, rodomontading

1. to boast; brag; talk big.

rodomontade British  

/ -ˈtɑːd, ˌrɒdəmɒnˈteɪd /

noun

1. 1. boastful words or behaviour; bragging

   2. ( as modifier )

      rodomontade behaviour

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verb

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

Etymology

Origin of rodomontade

First recorded in 1605–15; from Middle French, from Italian Rodomonte, the boastful king of Algiers in Orlando Innamorato and Orlando Furioso + Middle French -ade -ade ¹

Example Sentences

The rodomontade was, Laurel saw, a gag, but the essence of its truth was soon realized.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 18, 2015

What eristic discipline they brought to their sciolistic quibbles, though prone to occasional bursts of rodomontade!

From Washington Post • Aug. 21, 2015

Most excesses do not display the exaggerator's art in it's best light: they are merely blurbs and rodomontade.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is merely that such arguments are unnecessary, that anyone is capable, with less rodomontade, of precisely the deductions which he achieves.

From Time Magazine Archive

For whole days, if not for weeks together, he dealt in nothing but the wildest fiction, and the most extraordinary and grotesque rodomontade.

From The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by Carleton, William