Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Pretentious boasting or bragging; bluster.
- adjective Pretentiously boastful or bragging.
- intransitive verb To boast or brag.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To boast; brag; bluster; rant.
- noun Vain boasting; empty bluster or vaunting; rant.
- Bragging.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Vain boasting; empty bluster or vaunting; rant.
- intransitive verb To boast; to brag; to bluster; to rant.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Pretentiously
boastful . - noun Vain
boasting ; arant ;pretentious behaviour. - verb To
boast ,brag orbluster pretentiously.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun vain and empty boasting
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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That is what is termed a rodomontade of equal foolishness to Gormless Gordon's 'decade of shared prosperity'.
British Blogs 2010
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(Survey report 6801 summarizing Adm. 68/195, 156v, and other data in Adm. 68/194 and/196, found in the microfilms of the Virginia Colonial Records Project, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia; A letter of Carter's executors to Dawkins 1738 May 10 refers to "your ship Bailey.") [3] According to the Oxford English Dictionary, a "rodomontade" is "a vainglorious brag or boast; an extravagantly boastful or arrogant saying or speech."
Letter from Robert Carter to Edward Athawes, July 31, 1731 1731
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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
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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
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Despite the author's appealing, quirky sense of humor, her tale disconcerts with tasteless rodomontade more than it describes the fraught challenges in the complex geography of her portfolio.
C. Christine Fair: Baffled by The Taliban Shuffle C. Christine Fair 2011
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Ditch the shining rhetoric that lets politicians, with tongues of boughten silver, give Tiffany settings to rhinestone notions, decorate nonsense with bells of ringing phrases and frame their sorry bragging in glittering rodomontade.
In Vino Veritas P.J. O'Rourke 2011
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We should try to memorize the meaning of rodomontade and use it in our everyday conversation.
Think Diouf is vile? Listen to the fans | Kevin McKenna 2011
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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
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I had to look up what rodomontade means and it means arrogant boasting blustering or ranting talk
Think Diouf is vile? Listen to the fans | Kevin McKenna 2011
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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
cydonian commented on the word rodomontade
People who use big-sounding words like to think they have an innate sprachgefuhl; in reality, they're just being rodomontade.
September 6, 2007
rolig commented on the word rodomontade
Can a person "be" rodomontade? Wouldn't people showing off verbally be engaging in rodomontade?
December 4, 2007
rolig commented on the word rodomontade
From the name of a boastful character, Rodomonte, in the Orlando epics.
December 4, 2007
milosrdenstvi commented on the word rodomontade
Also spelt rhodomontade, a form I actually prefer because it means you're allowed to say it with pronounced trilled-r.
August 15, 2008
qms commented on the word rodomontade
There are some words that beg to be played.
They're the stuff from which music is made.
So let's raise a toast
To bluster and boast
And the chance to say rodomontade.
June 9, 2014