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Gasconade vs Boasting - What's the difference?

gasconade | boasting |

As nouns the difference between gasconade and boasting

is that gasconade is while boasting is the making of boasts.

As verbs the difference between gasconade and boasting

is that gasconade is while boasting is .

gasconade

English

Alternative forms

* Gasconade

Noun

(en noun)
  • Boastful talk.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year= 1652 , year_published= 1834 , author= (Thomas Urquhart) , by= , title= The Works of Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty, Knight , url= http://books.google.com/books?id=eU0JAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA217 , original= , chapter= ????????????? (The Jewel) , section= , isbn= 0707303273 , edition= , publisher= , location= Edinburgh , editor= , volume= , page= 217 , passage= the Gasconads of France, Rodomontads of Spain, Fanfaronads of Italy, and Bragadochio brags of all other countries, could no more astonish his invincible heart, then would the cheeping of a mouse a bear robbed of her whelps. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1687, author=
    • , title=Reflections on the Historical Part of Church Government citation , chapter= , isbn= , publisher=Theatre , location=Oxford , editor= , volume=5 , page=60 , passage=If the Author was Jesuite enough to say this to himself, before he wrote it, he may come off, If not, it will prove a most unconscionable Gasconade . Pate'' a was never Bishop of ''Rochester'', but of ''Worcester''; he was not Banish'd, but Fed; and this not in King ''Edward's'' time, but in King ''Henry's . }}
  • * 1782 , W. Cunningham Mallory, translation of Confessions by , Book III [http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/r/rousseau/jean_jacques/r864c/book3.html]:
    • "This Gasconade surprised Le Maitre — 'You'll see,' said he, whispering to me, 'that he does not know a single note.'"
  • * 1881 , Robert Louis Stevenson, :
    • "Just now... a cry from the opposite party who are content when they have enough, and like to look on and enjoy in the meanwhile, savours a little of bravado and gasconade ."
  • * 1988 , James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom , Oxford 2004, p. 816:
    • Nor was the president's talk of abundant and inexhaustible resources mere gasconade .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Of or pertaining to exaggeration or extravagant boasting; bombastic.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year= 1714 , year_published= 1889 , author= (Richard Steele) , by= , title= The Lover, & Selected Papers from "The Englishman", "Town Talk", "The Reader", "The Spinster" , url= http://books.google.com/books?id=EhIzAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA320 , original= , chapter= A Journey to Paris in 1713 , section= The Englishman , isbn= , edition= , publisher= Lee and Shepard Publishers , location= Boston , editor= , volume= , page= 320 , passage= But Poetry and her sister arts are now in the decline; since the Gasconade style is out of date they seem quite at a stand. }}

    Verb

    (gasconad)
  • (obsolete, derogatory) To talk boastfully.
  • * 1817 , review of "Wilks's Historical Sketches of the South of India," in The Quarterly Review [http://books.google.com/books?id=EsZK0EUNHc0C], page 57:
    • "The Frenchman, not being able to bring the precise number, received only, as the first month's pay, 2,000 rupees. He demanded an audience, talked loud, and gasconaded ."
  • * 1847 , Dorothy (Wordsworth) Quillinan, Journal of a Few Months Residence in Portugal and Glimpses of the South of Spain [http://books.google.com/books?id=4ps2AAAAMAAJ], page 246:
    • "...he gasconaded on the theme of his personal exploits in the Seven Years' War of France in Spain, as if he had been as prime a sword-player as Murat..."

    Synonyms

    * bluster * boast

    Usage notes

    Seldom used after the late 19th century. Appears overwhelmingly in references to the French.

    boasting

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The making of boasts.
    • It get boring listening to his boasting about his daughter.

    Anagrams

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