Braggadocio (noun)
brag-a-doh-shee-oh
Empty boasting; bragging. / A braggart or person who brags.
After Braggadocchio, boastful character in Spenser’s Faerie Queene (1590), apparently a pseudo-Italian coinage based on brag.
Example sentences
“He claims he’s such a big player, but in truth he’s nothing but a braggadocio.”
Medley (noun) med-lee a mixture, especially of heterogeneous elements; hodgepodge; jumble. First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English noun and adjective medle(e), medlei(e), maedlai(e) “battle, war, quarrel; mixture, balanced mixture,” from…
