Meaning of GASCONADE
| Pronunciation: | | `gasku'neyd
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| | Definition: | | [v] show off |
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| | Synonyms: | | blow, bluster, boast, brag, gas, shoot a line, swash, tout, vaunt |
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| | See Also: | | amplify, crow, exaggerate, gloat, hyerbolise, hyperbolize, magnify, overdraw, overstate, puff, triumph | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Gas`con*ade"\, n. [F. gasconnade, from Gascon an
inhabitant of Gascony, the people of which were noted for
boasting.]
A boast or boasting; a vaunt; a bravado; a bragging;
braggodocio. --Swift.
\Gas`con*ade"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Gasconaded}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Gasconading}.]
To boast; to brag; to bluster.
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| | Related Terms: | | blow, bluff, bluster, bluster and bluff, boast, bounce, brag, bully, cock-a-doodle-doo, crow, draw the longbow, flourish, hector, intimidate, mouth, out-herod Herod, prate, puff, rage, rant, rave, rodomontade, roister, rollick, slang, speak for Buncombe, splutter, sputter, storm, swagger, swashbuckle, vapor, vaunt |
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