rodomontade

i. [RODOMONTADE, 8.] Το boast, to brag, to bluster, to rant. rod-o-mon-tād-Ist, s . [Eng. rodomontad(e); -ist .] A blustering braggart, an empty boaster. "When the rodomontadist had ended his story, it was dinner-time." -Terry: Voyage to the East Indies , p. 167. rod-o-mon-tā'-dō, s. & a. [RODOMONTADE, 8.] A. As subst.: Boasting, brag, bluster, rodomontade. B. As adj .: Blustering, boastful, braggart. "The duke of Epernon, in a kind of a rodomontado way." -Howell: Letters , bk. i., § 2, let. 24.