braggadocio Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun vain and empty boasting
    rhodomontade; rodomontade; bluster.

WordNet

Brag`ga*do"cio noun
Etymology
From Braggadocchio, a boastful character in Spenser's "Faërie Queene."
Definitions
  1. A braggart; a boaster; a swaggerer. Dryden.
  2. Empty boasting; mere brag; pretension.

Webster 1913