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braggadocious; bragadocious
adjective
boastful US, 1956- The black who caused more nightmares for white America than any other was bullet-headed, braggadocious heavyweight boxing champion Jack Johnson. — Mary Frances Berry and John W. Blassingame, Long Memory, p. 131, 1982
- — John A. Holm, Dictionary of Bahamian English, p. 27, 1982
- I don’t mean to sound braggadocious, but it does not strap me or hurt me to do it. — Washington Post, p. A1, 26 April 1983
- — Frederic G. Cassidy, Dictionary of American Regional English, Volume 1, p. 361, 1985
- “It seems to me that people with these characteristics would naturally be drawn to music that is made especially braggadocious for them.” — William Upski Wimsatt, Bomb the Suburbs, p. 24, 1994
- — Peter L. Patrick, Some Recent Jamaican Creole Words, 2003
- We’re full of it. We’re vain, we’re braggadocious. At Passover, we try to come down to a normal level[.] — Ledger (Lakeland, Florida), p. D1, 3 April 2004
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