braggart
/ˈbraɡət
/ /ˈbraɡɑːt/noun
A person who boasts about their achievements or possessions: [as modifier]: braggart men...
- Are all fans from Philadelphia loud-mouthed braggarts?
- He was a braggart and a poseur, who frequently tripped himself up by telling inconsistent versions of the same story.
- Why people would want to read the raving, uninformed postings of anonymous blowhards and braggarts for voyeuristic sport is beyond me.
Synonyms
boaster, brag, bragger, show-off, blusterer, trumpeter, swaggerer, poser, poseur, poseuse, peacock, egotist, self-publicist
informal blowhard, big mouth, big-head, bag of wind, windbag, gasbag, loudmouth, bull-shooter, swank, swanker
Australian/New Zealand big-noter
North American informal showboat
Australian/New Zealand informal skite
British informal, dated swankpot
vulgar slang bullshitter
archaic blower, bouncer, shaker, puff, rodomont
rare braggadocio, gasconader, fanfaronade, attitudinizer
Origin
Late 16th century: from French bragard, from braguer 'to brag'.
Rhymes
- codify
- coding
- codling
- codling moth
- cod liver oil
- codology
- codomain
- codon
- codpiece
- co-driver
- codswallop
- cod war
- Cody
- Cody, William Frederick
- coecilian
- coed
- co-education
- co-educational
- coefficient
- coefficient of alienation
- coefficient of friction
- coefficient of viscosity
- coelacanth
- -coele
- Coelenterata