braggadocian

English

Etymology

From braggadocio +‎ -an.

Noun

braggadocian (plural braggadocians)

1. (obsolete) Someone given to empty boasting; a braggart.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
     , vol.1, New York Review of Books 2001, pp.296-7:

     neither Greeks nor Romans ever had the fifteenth part of the now known world, nor half of that which was then described. What braggadocians are they and we then!