Boasting vs Braggadocian - What's the difference?
boasting | braggadocian |
(obsolete) Someone given to empty boasting; a braggart.
*, vol.1, New York Review of Books 2001, pp.296-7:
As nouns the difference between boasting and braggadocian
is that boasting is the making of boasts while braggadocian is someone given to empty boasting; a braggart.As a verb boasting
is present participle of lang=en.braggadocian
English
Noun
(en noun)- neither Greeks nor Romans ever had the fifteenth part of the now known world, nor half of that which was then described. What braggadocians are they and we then!