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gasconade

noun

1 gasconade

An instance of boastful talk:
— Whenever he won we were exposed to his gasconade.

synonyms: brag, bragging, crow, crowing, line-shooting, vaporing.

Roget 884: boasting etc. v.; boast, vaunt, crake; pretense, pretensions; puff, puffery; flourish, fanfaronade; gasconade; ... show more

verb

1 gasconade

Show off.

synonyms: blow, bluster, boast, brag, gas, shoot a line, swash, tout, vaunt.

Dutch: bluffen, grootspreken, ophakken, opscheppen, opsnijden, patsen, pochen, snoeven


Moby thesaurus: blow, bluff, bluster, bluster and bluff, boast, bounce, brag, bully, cock-a-doodle-doo, crow, draw the longbow, flourish, hector, intimidate, mouth, out-herod Herod, prate, puff, rage, rant ... show more.

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