fanfaronn.adj.
1.
a. A blusterer, boaster, braggart.
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the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > [noun] > boaster
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Gascon1757
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penny trumpeter1828
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flannel-mouth1882
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Tartarin1903
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poofter1916
trombenik1922
shooter of lines1941
fat-mouth1942
wide-mouth1959
Wheneye1982
trash talker1986
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1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. 62 They should not play the Fanfarrones.
1694 R. L'Estrange Fables (ed. 2) 137 There are fanfarons in the tryals of wit too, as well as in feats of Arms.
1754 H. Walpole Let. 6 Oct. in Lett. to H. Mann (1833) III. 84 An excellent fanfaron, a Major Washington.
1861 G. A. Sala Dutch Pict. xix. 297, I..always set him down as a vapouring fanfaroon.
b. Const. of. One who makes a parade of something; a trumpeter of.
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1857 A. W. Fonblanque Life & Labours (1874) 273 He is a little fanfaron of his virtues.
1880 J. McCarthy Hist. our Own Times I. ii. 27 He became the fanfaron of vices which he never had.
c. attrib. or adj. Braggart, boastful.
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the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > [adjective]
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knock-me-down1922
showboating1936
showboat1939
hellzapoppin'1945
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glitzy1966
sploshy1966
zhuzhy1968
noncy1989
bling1999
the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > [adjective] > boastful
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Tartarin1903
1670 S. Wilson Lassels's Voy. Italy (new ed.) Pref. sig. īv, He must not follow them in all their Phantastical and fanfaron clothings.
1716 M. Davies Diss. Author & Oecon. Lat. Drama 21 in Athenæ Britannicæ III These Fanfaran or Thrasonick Romists.
1831 Soc. Life Eng. & France ii. 74 Blood..seems to have been a sort of fanfaron assassin.
2. = fanfare n.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > music on specific instrument > [noun] > wind music > fanfare
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1848 E. Bulwer-Lytton Harold II. ix. ii. 298 Amidst a loud fanfaron of fifes and trumpets.
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