blague
noun
Roget 884:
boasting
etc.
v.;
boast,
vaunt,
crake†;
pretense,
pretensions;
puff,
puffery;
flourish,
fanfaronade†;
gasconade;
blague†,
bluff,
gas [Slang];
highfalutin,
highfaluting†;
hot air,
spread-eagleism [U.S.];
brag,
braggardism†;
bravado,
bunkum,
buncombe;
jactitation†,
jactancy†;
bounce;
venditation†,
vaporing,
rodomontade,
bombast,
fine talking,
tall talk,
magniloquence,
teratology†,
heroics;
Chauvinism;
exaggeration
etc.
549.
vanity
etc.
880;
vox et praeterea nihil [Lat.];
much cry and little wool,
brutum fulmen [Lat.].
exultation;
gloriation†,
glorification;
flourish of trumpets;
triumph
etc.
883.
boaster;
braggart,
braggadocio;
Gascon [Fr.],
fanfaron†,
pretender,
soi-disant [Fr.];
blower [U.S.],
bluffer,
Foxy Quiller†;
blusterer
etc.
887;
charlatan,
jack-pudding,
trumpeter;
puppy
etc.
(fop)
854.
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verb
Roget 884:
boast,
make a boast of,
brag,
vaunt,
Puff,
show off,
flourish,
crake†,
crack,
trumpet,
strut,
swagger,
vapor;
blague†,
blow,
four-flush [Slang],
bluff.
exult,
crow,
crow over,
neigh,
chuckle,
triumph;
throw up one's cap;
talk big,
se faire valoir [Fr.],
faire claquer son fouet [Fr.],
take merit to oneself,
make a merit of,
sing Io triumphe†,
holloa before one is out of the wood†.
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noun
Roget 544:
falsehood,
falseness;
falsity,
falsification;
deception
etc.
545;
untruth
etc.
546;
guile;
lying
etc.
454;
untruth
etc.
546;
guile;
lying
etc.
v..
misrepresentation;
mendacity,
perjury,
false swearing;
forgery,
invention,
fabrication;
subreption†;
covin†.
perversion of truth,
suppression of truth;
suppressio veri [Lat.];
perversion,
distortion,
false coloring;
exaggeration
etc.
549;
prevarication,
equivocation,
shuffling,
fencing,
evasion,
fraud;
suggestio falsi
etc.
(lie)
546 [Lat.];
mystification
etc.
(concealment)
528;
simulation
etc.
(imitation)
19;
dissimulation,
dissembling;
deceit;
blague†.
sham;
pretense,
pretending,
malingering.
lip homage,
lip service;
mouth honor;
hollowness;
mere show,
mere outside;
duplicity,
double dealing,
insincerity,
hypocrisy,
cant,
humbug;
jesuitism,
jesuitry;
pharisaism;
Machiavelism,
organized hypocrisy;"
crocodile tears,
mealy-mouthedness†,
quackery;
charlatanism†,
charlatanry;
gammon;
bun-kum†,
bumcombe,
flam;
bam [Slang],
flimflam,
cajolery,
flattery;
Judas kiss;
perfidy
etc.
(bad faith)
940;
il volto sciolto i pensieri stretti [It].
unfairness
etc.
(dishonesty)
940;
artfulness
etc.
(cunning)
702;
misstatement
etc.
(error)
495.
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verb
Roget 544:
be false
etc.
adj.,
be a liar
etc.
548;
speak falsely
etc.
adv.;
tell a lie
etc.
546;
lie,
fib;
lie like a trooper;
swear false,
forswear,
perjure oneself,
bear false witness.
misstate,
misquote,
miscite†,
misreport,
misrepresent;
belie,
falsify,
pervert,
distort;
put a false construction upon
etc.
(misinterpret);
prevaricate,
equivocate,
quibble;
palter,
palter to the understanding;
repondre en Normand [Fr.];
trim,
shuffle,
fence,
mince the truth,
beat about the bush,
blow hot and cold,
play fast and loose.
garble,
gloss over,
disguise,
give a color to;
give a gloss,
put a gloss,
put false coloring upon;
color,
varnish,
cook,
dress up,
embroider;
varnish right and puzzle wrong;
exaggerate
etc.
549;
blague†.
invent,
fabricate;
trump up,
get up;
force,
fake,
hatch,
concoct;
romance
etc.
(imagine)
515;
cry 'wolf!'.
dissemble,
dissimulate;
feign,
assume,
put on,
pretend,
make believe;
play possum;
play false,
play a double game;
coquet;
act a part,
play a part;
affect
etc.
855;
simulate,
pass off for;
counterfeit,
sham,
make a show of;
malinger;
say the grapes are sour.
cant,
play the hypocrite,
sham Abraham,
faire pattes de velours,
put on the mask,
clean the outside of the platter,
lie like a conjuror;
hand out false colors,
hold out false colors,
sail under false colors;
commend the poisoned chalice to the lips"
[Macbeth];
ambiguas in vulgum spargere voces [Lat.];
deceive
etc.
545.
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