单词 | bravado |
释义 | bravadon. 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. 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. 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. 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). < n.1583v.1801 |
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