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Braggart vs Gascon - What's the difference?

braggart | gascon |

As nouns the difference between braggart and gascon

is that braggart is someone who boasts while Gascon is a native or inhabitant of Gascony, a region of southwest France.

As an adjective Gascon is

of or relating to Gascony.

As a proper noun Gascon is

the dialect of the Occitan language spoken in Gascony.

braggart

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • someone who boasts.
  • * Shakespeare
    • O, I could play the woman with mine eyes, / And braggart with my tongue.

    Synonyms

    * braggadocio * bragger * boaster * See also

    Related terms

    * brag

    gascon

    English

    Alternative forms

    * Gascoigne * Gascoine

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A native or inhabitant of Gascony, a region of southwest France.
  • *, II.8:
  • *:I am a Gascoine , and there is no vice wherein I have lesse skill: I hate it somewhat more by complexion, than I accuse it by discourse.
  • * 1948 , ‘The New Pictures’, Time , 1 Nov.:
    • Gene Kelly plays D'Artagnan as an irrepressible, tongue-in-cheek Gascon who is knee-deep in gory swordplay.
  • (obsolete) A braggart; a bully.

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Of or relating to Gascony.
  • (obsolete) braggart; swaggering

    • Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • The dialect of the Occitan language spoken in Gascony.

    • Anagrams

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