Word of the Day – Rodomontade

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.”