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Braggadocio vs Braggadocii - What's the difference?

braggadocio | braggadocii |

As nouns the difference between braggadocio and braggadocii

is that braggadocio is a braggart while braggadocii is (rare).

braggadocio

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A braggart.
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  • Empty boasting.

    • Quotations

    * (English Citations of "braggadocio")

    Synonyms

    * (braggart) blowhard * (empty boasting) big talk

    See also

    * machismo

    braggadocii

    English

    Noun

    (head) (p)
  • (rare)
  • * 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 , p132
    • 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 .