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Gasconade vs Gasconader - What's the difference?

gasconade | gasconader |

As nouns the difference between gasconade and gasconader

is that gasconade is while gasconader is a great boaster; a blusterer.

As a verb gasconade

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.

    gasconader

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A great boaster; a blusterer.
    • (Webster 1913)