braggadocii

braggadocii

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌbɹæɡəˈdəʊt͡ʃiː/

Noun

braggadocii

1. (rare) plural of braggadocio
   • 1857: Terence, Edward St. John Parry, Comoediae sex, p111

     Kings are stock characters in plays as well as slaves and braggadocii.

   • 1890, Charles Wentworth Dilke, Greater Britain: A Record of Travel in English-speaking Countries, page 132:

     Every fellow that you meet upon track near Stockton or Austin City, walks as though he were defying lightning, yet this without silly struts or braggadocii.

   • 1849–1852: Peter Lund Simmonds & William Henry Giles Kingston, Colonial Magazine and East India Review, p230

     The second volume consists of a gossiping set of letters from Florence, on art and artists, in which occur many sensible remarks with much trash and braggadocii.