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单词 bravado
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bravadon.

Brit. /brəˈvɑːdəʊ/, /brəˈveɪdəʊ/, U.S. /brəˈvɑˌdoʊ/
Forms: Also 1500s–1600s brauado, braueado, 1600s brauardo, bravadoe, brevada; plural bravadoes (also bravados).
Etymology: < Spanish bravada and French bravade: see bravade n. and -ado suffix.
1.
a. Boastful or threatening behaviour; ostentatious display of courage or boldness; bold or daring action intended to intimidate or to express defiance; often, an assumption of courage or hardihood to conceal felt timidity, or to carry one out of a doubtful or difficult position.Now usually in the singular, without a: less commonly a bravado or in plural.
ΚΠ
1589 P. Jones in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations i. 229 It was not that Spanish brauado.
1626 T. Hawkins tr. N. Caussin Holy Court I. i. 62 To sound vain~glorious Brauado's.
1630 R. Brathwait Eng. Gentleman 196 These Gamesters, who in a bravado will set their patrimonies at a throw.
1645 J. Milton Colasterion 15 Hee retreats with a bravado, that it deservs no answer.
1678 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 128 Notwithstanding all his Bravadoes, he [Shame] promoteth the Fool, and none else. View more context for this quotation
a1707 S. Patrick Serm. 1 Sam. xvii. 8 To have been done out of a bravado.
1808 M. L. Weems Life G. Washington (ed. 6) x. 108 To hear their bravadoes, one would suppose, [etc.].
1816 J. Austen Emma II. viii. 133 A sort of bravado, an air of affected unconcern. View more context for this quotation
1832 W. Scott Redgauntlet (new ed.) I. Introd. p. xvi A series of idle bravadoes.
1853 F. W. Robertson Serm. 3rd Ser. xvii. 214 We may do it in bravado or in wantonness.
b. to make or give a bravado: to make a display in the face of the enemy, to offer battle. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > armed encounter > contending in battle > contend in battle or give battle [verb (intransitive)] > offer battle
to bid (any one) battle, armsc1330
to make or give a bravado1600
to bid defiance1629
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. iii. lx. 128 When they made bravadoes, and challenged them to come forth and fight, not one Romane would answer them again.
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary ii. ii. ii. 164 That some foote should bee drawne out of the Campe, to give the Spaniards a brauado.
1688 London Gaz. No. 2361/3 A Party of the Moors making a Bravado.
c. attributive.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > blustering or bravado > [noun]
facing1481
blusteringa1494
flirdom?a1500
bravity1546
bravery1548
roistingc1560
bravado1583
roister-doisterdom1592
swash1593
swaggeringa1596
huffing1600
hufty1609
huff1611
brustling1622
hufty-tufty1633
bouncing1634
hectorism1672
huffiness1678
bluster1692
bounce1714
bravadoism1833
fanfaronading1837
bush1840
huffishness1841
swashbuckling1888
bucko1909
1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. G8 The barbers..haue one maner of cut called the French cut..one of the brauado fashion.
1844 B. Disraeli Coningsby II. v. iv. 263 It is a day..of hopes and fears..bravado bets and secret hedging.
2. A swaggering fellow, a hector, a bravo. Obsolete. [apparently after Spanish masculines in -ado already used in English, as desperado, renegado, etc. Compare bravo.]
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > blustering or bravado > [noun] > person
jettera1400
flirdom?a1500
facerc1500
termagant1508
rutterkina1529
bellomy1535
bystour1535
roister1549
swash1549
rush-buckler1551
roisterkin1553
swashbuckler1560
dash-buckler1567
swinge-buckler?1577
whiffler1581
huff-snuff1582
swish-swash1582
fixnet1583
swag1588
swasher?1589
kill-cow1590
roister-doister1592
dagger1597
flaunting Fabian1598
tisty-tosty1598
huff-cap1600
swaggerer1600
burgullian1601
huff-muff1602
tear-cat1606
blusterer1609
wag-feather1611
wind-cutter1611
bilbo-lorda1625
tearer1633
cacafuegoa1640
bravado1643
Hector1655
scaramouch1662
swashado1663
huffer1664
bluster-mastera1670
Drawcansir1672
bully huff1673
huff1674
belswagger1680
valienton1681
blunderbuss1685
Draw can bully1698
bouncer1764
Bobadil1771
bounce1819
pistol1828
sacripant1829
hufty1847
bucko1883
1643 A. Wilson Five Yeares King Iames 3 Roaring-boyes,..[and] Bravadors [1653: Bravadoes],..being persons prodigall.
1668 S. Pepys Diary 28 Feb. (1976) IX. 96 The hectors and bravados of the House.
1817 S. T. Coleridge Biographia Literaria II. xxi. 121 But idlers and bravadoes..must beware.
1825 A. Knapp & W. Baldwin Newgate Cal. III. 397/2 Webb..was the greatest bravado.

Derivatives

braˈvadoism n. rare
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > blustering or bravado > [noun]
facing1481
blusteringa1494
flirdom?a1500
bravity1546
bravery1548
roistingc1560
bravado1583
roister-doisterdom1592
swash1593
swaggeringa1596
huffing1600
hufty1609
huff1611
brustling1622
hufty-tufty1633
bouncing1634
hectorism1672
huffiness1678
bluster1692
bounce1714
bravadoism1833
fanfaronading1837
bush1840
huffishness1841
swashbuckling1888
bucko1909
1833 Fraser's Mag. 8 527 Was..his apparent strength and defiance, real weakness and bravadoism?
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

bravadov.

Brit. /brəˈvɑːdəʊ/, /brəˈveɪdəʊ/, U.S. /brəˈvɑˌdoʊ/
Etymology: < bravado n.
intransitive. To show bravado, talk defiantly, put on a bold face.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > oppose [verb (intransitive)] > defy
stout1303
to be (also meet, run) in a person's beardc1380
to face and brace1447
to stout it1570
to bid defiance1629
to stout it outa1639
bravado1801
to breast it out1815
1801 M. Edgeworth Belinda I. iv. 117 I bravadoed to Harriot most magnanimously.
1840 T. Hook Fitzherbert III. xvii. 333 They tried to bravado it out.

Derivatives

braˈvadoing n. and adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > [noun] > defiance
despitec1380
cartel of defiancec1430
facing1481
facing and bracing1481
bearding1577
dare1594
braving1616
stouting1630
outbraving1631
affront1642
defiance1710
defial1793
bravadoing1809
bravading1812
defiantness1872
the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > [adjective] > defiant
stout1390
outbraving1593
outfacing1598
dareful1614
defiatory1635
outdaring1644
braving1679
defensive1785
bravadoing1809
defying1834
defianta1837
1809 M. Edgeworth Almeria in Tales of Fashionable Life II. 56 Lady Stock, notwithstanding her bravadoing air, was frequently perplexed, and anxious.
1826 Blackwood's Mag. 19 Pref. 9 There was..much bravadoing and even apparent offers of battle.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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