blagueur

Also: blaguer (verb) = to joke un blagueur/une blagueuse

une blague - French Word-A-Day 2004

Also: blaguer (verb) = to joke un blagueur/une blagueuse

French Word-A-Day: 2004

Also: blaguer (verb) = to joke un blagueur/une blagueuse

French Word-A-Day: 2004

I hope she has discernment enough to find in me something besides the blagueur.

The Awakening 2000

Its etymon _blague_ (bladder, _tobacco-bag_), the pouch, which smoking voluptuaries use to deposit their tobacco, is perfectly symbolic of the inane, bombastic, windy, and long-winded speeches and sayings of the _blagueur_.

Notes and Queries, No. 209, October 29 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. Various

Of all living unrespectable characters our own _blagueur_ is the youngest, the most innocent, and the shyest.

Notes and Queries, No. 209, October 29 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. Various

In the verandah the gentlemen were drinking liqueur and eating strawberries: one of them, the Examining Magistrate -- a stout elderly man, blagueur and wit -- must have been telling some rather free anecdote, for, seeing their hostess, he suddenly clapped his hands over his fat lips, rolled his eyes, and sat down.

The Party 1917

I hope she has discernment enough to find in me something besides the blagueur.

The Awakening 1899

"Don't you know that he is the greatest _blagueur_ an existence?" he asked.

The Mountebank William John Locke 1896

Naturalist, and then mystic, and always _blagueur_.

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889