Rodomontade (noun)
rod-uh-mon-tay-d
Boastful or inflated talk or behaviour.
An eponymous word taken from the name of a boastful character in the medieval Orlando epics.
Example sentences
“Accomplished veterans are punished for such rodomontade: What do we suppose will happen to he who taunts the defending champions in his very first career start?”
“For all of its jingoistic rodomontade, the government had no thought-out plan for the war and its aftermath.”
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