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gasconade

DEFINITIONS OF: gasconade

1

n an instance of boastful talk

“whenever he won we were exposed to his gasconade”
Synonyms:
brag, bragging, crow, crowing, line-shooting, vaporing
Type of:
boast, boasting, jactitation, self-praise
speaking of yourself in superlatives

v show off

Synonyms:
blow, bluster, boast, brag, gas, shoot a line, swash, tout, vaunt
Types:
puff
speak in a blustering or scornful manner
crow, gloat, triumph
dwell on with satisfaction
congratulate, preen
pride or congratulate (oneself) for an achievement
Type of:
amplify, exaggerate, hyperbolise, hyperbolize, magnify, overdraw, overstate
to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth
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