fanfarrão
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Spanish fanfarrón, from Arabic فَرْفَار (farfār).[1] Cognate with French fanfaron, Italian fanfarone.
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: fan‧fa‧rrão
Adjective
[edit]fanfarrão (feminine fanfarrona, masculine plural fanfarrões, feminine plural fanfarronas)
Noun
[edit]fanfarrão m (plural fanfarrões, feminine fanfarrona, feminine plural fanfarronas)
- braggart (one who boasts)
- Synonyms: paparrotão, bazofiador, gabarola, gabola
References
[edit]- ^ “fanfarrão”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024