braggadocii
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌbɹæɡəˈdəʊt͡ʃiː/
Noun
braggadocii
- (rare) plural of braggadocio
- 1857: Terence, Edward St. John Parry, Comoediae sex, p111
- Kings are stock characters in plays as well as slaves and braggadocii.
- 1890, Charles Wentworth Dilke, Greater Britain: A Record of Travel in English-speaking Countries, page 132:
- Every fellow that you meet upon track near Stockton or Austin City, walks as though he were defying lightning, yet this without silly struts or braggadocii.
- 1849–1852: Peter Lund Simmonds & William Henry Giles Kingston, Colonial Magazine and East India Review, p230
- The second volume consists of a gossiping set of letters from Florence, on art and artists, in which occur many sensible remarks with much trash and braggadocii.
- 1857: Terence, Edward St. John Parry, Comoediae sex, p111
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