It is an old, I believe an obsolete, French word, and means "braggart.

For J.W. is no braggart, nor is he overmuch given to self-admiration; we know him better than that.

She would not marry a coward or a braggart, even if he were the owner of ten thousand acres.

This also served to increase the hardships of the prisoner's lot, and he now found himself deprived of the former companionship of his friends and surrounded by strangers, the one familiar face remaining being that of Lieutenant Bach, a Danish officer, a braggart swordsman and ruffler, who had always been hostile to him.

" "Defend yourself, braggart!" shouted Bach.

exultation; gloriation^, glorification; flourish of trumpets; triumph &c 883. boaster; braggart, braggadocio; Gascon [Fr.], fanfaron^, pretender, soi-disant [Fr.]; blower [U.S.], bluffer, Foxy Quiller^; blusterer &c 887; charlatan, jack-pudding, trumpeter; puppy &c (fop) 854.

[Fr.], faire claquer son fouet [Fr.], take merit to oneself, make a merit of, sing Io triumphe^, holloa before one is out of the wood^. Adj. boasting &c v.; magniloquent, flaming, Thrasonic, stilted, gasconading, braggart, boastful, pretentious, soi-disant

Blusterer N. blusterer, swaggerer, vaporer, roisterer^, brawler; fanfaron^; braggart &c (boaster) 884; bully, terrorist, rough; bulldozer [U.S.], hoodlum, hooligan [Slang], larrikin^, roarer

Jimmy was one of those masterful stupid boys who excel at games and physical contests, and triumph over intellectual problems by sheer braggart ignorance.

The lighters do not differ much from the grotesque, the foolish, and the braggart ruck of men.

Gee!" In spite of herself Judith looked somewhat startled by the vibration of sincerity in his voice, and Sylvia, with her quick sympathy of divination, had turned almost as pale as the little boy, who, all his braggart turbulence gone, stood looking at them with a sick expression in his eyes.

Now, Sth; Now, the cowardly Cartouche; Now, the poltroon Rob Roy; Now, the braggart Wallace!

Buzz Werner was called Buzz not only because he talked too much, but because he was a braggart.

A mouthy braggart in company is often silent in his own home, and Buzz was no exception to this rule.

This sullen unrest and rebellion it was that, transmitted to his son, had made Buzz the unruly braggart that he was, and which, twenty or thirty years hence, would find him just such a one as his fatheruseless, evil-tempered, half brutal, defiant of order.

And in that moment Buzz, the bully and braggart, vanished forever.

He knew that the othersincluding the native who served themwere regarding him with the pity that one extends to the vain-glorious braggart who goes down with flying colours.

"Braggart.... Fraud....

"No braggart Heracles avails to bring Alcestis hence; nor here may Roland see The eyes of Aude; nor here the wakening spring Vex any man with memories: for there be No memories that cling as cerements cling, No force that baffles Death, more strong than he.

Milfort's book is very interesting, but as the man himself was evidently a hopeless liar and braggart, it can only be trusted where it was not for his interest to tell a falsehood.

I answered him, 'Sir, let me assure you that I am no braggart, nor so hare-brained as you consider me.

Of high personal courage, he was a braggart and a ruffian, who used the dagger as freely as the tools of his craft.

"The last folly of the braggart is to boast of misfortune," she said.

* THE QUICKSAND! Is this the Eagle-hunter, The valiant fate-confronter, The soldier brave, and blunter Of speech than BISMARCK's self? This bungler all-disgracing, This braggart all-debasing.

It is amusing to see how these disguised priestlings now play the bully-braggart in the language of Sans-culottism, how fiercely they coquet with the red Jacobin cap, yet are ever and anon afflicted with the thought that they might forgetfully have put on in its place the red cap of a prelate; they take for an instant from their heads their borrowed covering and show the tonsure unto all the world.

"That he was a great lover and praiser of himself; a contemner and scorner of others, rather chusing to lose a friend than a jest; jealous of every word and action of those about him, especially after drink, which was one of the elements in which he lived; a dissembler of the parts which reigned in him; a bragger of some good that he wanted: he thought nothing right, but what either himself or some of his friends had said or done.

Truly, whose child he is is yet unknown; for, willingly, his faith allows no father: only thus far his pedigree is found, Bragger and he flourished about a time first.