BRAGGADOCIO

PRONUNCIATION: (brag-uh-DO-shee-o)

MEANING: noun:
1. An empty boaster.
2. Empty boasting.
3. Boastful behavior.

ETYMOLOGY: After Braggadochio, a boastful character in Edmund Spenser’s 1590 epic poem The Faerie Queene. Earliest documented use: 1594. Here’s another word that came to us from the same book: blatant.
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ABRAGGADOCIO - incantation used by the Fairy Queene

BRAGGA-DO-CI-DO - egotistical square dancer

BRAGG ADO CIA - much fuss in the North Carolina fort but you're not cleared to hear it
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I occasionally wonder - with many of this week's words - which came first, the behavior or the literary character...