Gasconism

See also: gasconism

English

Etymology

Gascon +‎ -ism

Noun

Gasconism (countable and uncountable, plural Gasconisms)

1. Bragging; boastfulness.
2. A Gascon idiom or expression.
   • 1898, Mary E. Lowndes, Michel de Montaigne: A Biographical Study, page 159:

     So that the Latinisms — as again the Gasconisms that betray his origin, — are assimilated into the substance of his writing rather than appended as foreign elements.

Anagrams

• Scoganism