1.
Extravagant boasting; boastful talk.
1.
To boast extravagantly; bluster.
Quotes:
The British officers laugh, because they are wellarmed and many, and Kemal's men are pitifully few,but they enjoy and admire Kemal's swashbucklinggasconade , and they let his party pass.
-- Louis de Bernières, Birds Without Wings
The papers, barely days old, were full of boastfulmalarkey and gasconade , but of much more evidentvalue when it came to information about the state ofthings in France, and in the local area.
-- Dewey Lambdin, Troubled Waters
Origin:
Gasconade originally referred to people who were fromthe Gascony region of southwest France, borderingSpain. Gascons reputedly boast and exaggerate theirsuccess, and their toponym took on a life of its own. It became common in English in the early 1700s.
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