braggadocian

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English

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Etymology

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From braggadocio +‎ -an.

Noun

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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: [] 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!