Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A bully; a hector; a swaggerer; an empty boaster; a vain pretender.
  • noun Noisy or boastful parade; ostentation; fanfare.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun rare A bully; a hector; a swaggerer; an empty boaster.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun obsolete bully
  • noun obsolete boaster

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Examples

  • Walpole from then on ridiculed GW, calling him a fanfaron braggart, and saying that he soon “learned to blush for his rodomontade.”

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • Walpole from then on ridiculed GW, calling him a fanfaron braggart, and saying that he soon “learned to blush for his rodomontade.”

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • Walpole from then on ridiculed GW, calling him a fanfaron braggart, and saying that he soon “learned to blush for his rodomontade.”

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • Walpole from then on ridiculed GW, calling him a fanfaron braggart, and saying that he soon “learned to blush for his rodomontade.”

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • “Despardieux, milor,” said the Chevalier, “if he had stayed one moment, he should have had a torchon — what you call a dishclout, pinned to him for a piece of shroud, to show he be de ghost of one grand fanfaron.”

    The Fortunes of Nigel 2004

  • But the apothecary, who perhaps had more penetration or less partiality than his wife and daughter, differed from them in their sentiments of the matter, and expressed himself to me in the shop in this manner: “Ah mon pauvre Roderique! you have more of de veracite dan of de prudence — bot mine vife and dater be diablement sage, and Monsieur le Capitaine un fanfaron, pardieu!”

    The Adventures of Roderick Random 2004

  • Peregrine, glowing with resentment, called him a fanfaron, and withdrew in expectation of being followed into the street.

    The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle 2004

  • The Hungarian hussar is no fanfaron like the French chasseur, but he is conscious of his own powers, like a Grenadier of the Old Imperial Guard.

    International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 9, August 26, 1850 Various

  • Calling him an old blower and bloat, a gas-bag and _fanfaron_, a Gascon and a _carajo_, _alma miserabile_, and a pudding-head, a _sacre menteur_ and a _verfluchte prahlerische Hauptesel_, a brassy old blunder-head and

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

  • Un fanfaron croyant qu'il était au-dessous de lui de se déranger, se laissa accrocher, et son habit fut déchiré.

    French Conversation and Composition Harry Vincent Wann

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  • Oh, wonder not that he yammers on;

    He was to the bullshit manner born.

    His loftiest notion

    Is crude self-promotion

    It lives in the genes of the fanfaron.

    January 16, 2017

  • "Peregrine, glowing with resentment, called him a fanfaron, and withdrew in expectation of being followed into the street."

    — Smollett, Peregrine Pickle

    February 17, 2022