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ˈBobadil
Name of a thrasonical character in Ben Jonson's Every Man in Hum., used to designate a blustering braggart who pretends to prowess. Hence Bobaˈdilian, ˈBobaˌdilish adjs. ˈBobaˌdilism.
1771P. Parsons Newmarket I. 82 Stay, stay, my good Bobadil, I have not done with you yet. c1778Conquerors 34 Such valiant Bobadils are caress'd and knighted. 1830Blackw. Mag. XXVII. 735 This bluster and braggadocio, these burly Bobadilisms. 1832Fraser's Mag. V. 163 A Bobadilish bulletin. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. II. iii. iii. 145 That Bobadilian method of contest. |