Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A great boaster.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A great boaster; a blusterer.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A great
boaster ; ablusterer .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Smyth, an empty gasconader, was regarded, even by his own troops, with contempt, and had to fly from the camp to escape their indignation.
Neville Trueman, the Pioneer Preacher : a tale of the war of 1812
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They attributed the success of the Gascon poet to the liveliness of the southerners, who were excited by the merest trifles; and they suspected that Jasmin, instead of being a poet, was but a clever gasconader, differing only from the rest of his class by speaking in verse instead of prose.
Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 1891
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They attributed the success of the Gascon poet to the liveliness of the southerners, who were excited by the merest trifles; and they suspected that Jasmin, instead of being a poet, was but a clever gasconader, differing only from the rest of his class by speaking in verse instead of prose.
Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist Samuel Smiles 1858
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Patting her on the head, he replied, "Then I am a gasconader, am I?"
The Knights of the Horse-Shoe; A Traditionary Tale of the Cocked Hat Gentry in the Old Dominion. 1845
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