fanfaronade

fanfaronade
Synonyms and related words:
anniversaries, blazon, bluff, bluster, bluster and bluff, blustering, boast, boastfulness, boasting, bombast, brag, braggadocio, braggartism, bragging, bravado, bravura, brilliancy, bullying, bustle, celebrating, celebration, ceremony, commemoration, conceit, daring, dash, demonstration, display, dramatics, dressing ship, eclat, etalage, exhibition, exhibitionism, false front, fanfare, festivity, figure, flair, flaunt, flaunting, flourish, flourish of trumpets, flurry, fluster, fuss, gasconade, gasconism, hectoring, heroics, histrionics, holiday, intimidation, jactation, jactitation, jubilee, manifestation, marking the occasion, memorialization, memory, observance, ovation, pageant, pageantry, parade, rant, rejoicing, religious rites, remembrance, revel, rite, ritual observance, rodomontade, salute, salvo, sham, show, showing-off, side, solemn observance, solemnization, spectacle, splash, splurge, splutter, sputter, staginess, swagger, swashbucklery, testimonial, testimonial banquet, testimonial dinner, theatrics, toast, tribute, triumph, vanity, vaunt, vauntery, vaunting

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  • Fanfaronade — Fan*far on*ade , n. [F. fanfaronnade, fr. Sp. fanfarronada. See {Fanfaron}.] A swaggering; vain boasting; ostentation; a bluster. Swift. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • fanfaronade — index histrionics, jactation, pretense (ostentation), rodomontade Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • fanfaronade — [fan΄fə rə nād′] n. [Fr < Sp fanfarronada < fanfarrón, boaster, prob. < Ar farfār, loquacious] boasting talk or showy action; bluster …   English World dictionary

  • fanfaronade — noun Etymology: French fanfaronnade, from Spanish fanfarronada, from fanfarrón braggart Date: 1652 empty boasting ; bluster …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • fanfaronade — /fan feuhr euh nayd /, n. bragging; bravado; bluster. [1645 55; < F fanfaronnade < Sp fanfarronada. See FANFARON, ADE1] * * * …   Universalium

  • fanfaronade — noun Empty boasting, wildly self assertive …   Wiktionary

  • Fanfaronade — Fan|fa|ro|na|de, die; , n [frz. fanfaronnade, zu: fanfaron, ↑Fanfaron] (veraltet): Angeberei, Prahlerei …   Universal-Lexikon

  • fanfaronade — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun An act of boasting: boast, brag, braggadocio, gasconade, rodomontade, vaunt. Informal: blow1. See PRAISE …   English dictionary for students

  • Fanfaronade — Fan|fa|ro|na|de [fanfaron...] die; , en <aus gleichbed. fr. fanfaronnade> (veraltet) Großsprecherei, Prahlerei …   Das große Fremdwörterbuch

  • fanfaronade — n. (French) boasting; bluster …   English contemporary dictionary

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