noun

• A person who boasts extravagantly.

  ‘We suspect our friend the Chevalier to be somewhat of a gasconader.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘He was considered somewhat of a Spanish gasconader and a bully.’
  • ‘In spite of contempt for the gasconader, his lordship was half angered by his impudence.’
  • ‘The idea that force alone is sufficient to subject a nation, is worthy only of the gasconaders in politics.’
  • ‘Many Gasconaders, he informed me, had threatened the assault, and even commenced the undertaking, but were compelled to give up the attempt.’

  Synonyms

  boaster, brag, bragger, show-off, blusterer, trumpeter, swaggerer, poser, poseur, poseuse, peacock, egotist, self-publicist