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Gasconade definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

GAS'CONADE, n. A boast or boasting; a vaunt; a bravado; a bragging.
GASCONA'DE, v.i. To boast; to brag; to vaunt; to bluster.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: an instance of boastful talk; "his brag is worse than his fight"; "whenever he won we were exposed to his gasconade" [syn: brag, bragging, crow, crowing, vaporing, line-shooting, gasconade] v
1: show off [syn: boast, tout, swash, shoot a line, brag, gas, blow, bluster, vaunt, gasconade]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: French gasconnade, from gasconner to boast, from gascon Gascon, boaster Date: 1709 bravado, boasting • gasconade intransitive verb • gasconader noun

Merriam Webster's

geographical name river 265 miles (426 kilometers) S central Missouri flowing NE into Missouri River

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Gasconade 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Gasconade Gas`con*ade", v. i. [imp. & p. p. Gasconaded; p. pr. & vb. n. Gasconading.] To boast; to brag; to bluster.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. n. Boast, brag, vaunt, bravado, vaporing, fanfaronade, bluster, swagger, great cry and little wool. II. v. n. Boast, brag, vaunt, swagger, bluster, vapor.

Moby Thesaurus

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