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braggadocio (brag uh DOH shee oh) (s) (noun), braggadocios (pl)
1. Someone who is pretentious, full of self-praise, and boasts: Tina, the new girl in the biology class, had a showy kind of character and seemed to be a braggadocio who was telling the other students about the yacht her parents had and of their traveling back and forth on the coast, but none of it was true!
2. The annoying egotistical talk of a person who is usually trying to sound very proud or brave: Andrew knows a professional wrestler who is a braggart and who hides his real cowardly feelings with braggadocios; especially, before he starts to grapple with his opponents.
Empty exaggerations or fradulellnt statements.
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Someone who is a boaster or a braggard.
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