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[syn: braggadocio, bluster, rodomontade, rhodomontade]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Rodomontade \Rod`o*mon*tade"\, v. i.
To boast; to brag; to bluster; to rant.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Rodomontade \Rod`o*mon*tade"\, n. [F., fr. It. rodomontana. See
Rodomont, n.]
Vain boasting; empty bluster or vaunting; rant.
[1913 Webster]
I could show that the rodomontades of Almanzor are
neither so irrational nor impossible. --Dryden.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
rodomontade
n 1: vain and empty boasting [syn: braggadocio, bluster,
rodomontade, rhodomontade]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
90 Moby Thesaurus words for "rodomontade":
absurdity, amphigory, babble, babblement, balderdash,
bibble-babble, blabber, blather, bluff, bluster, bluster and bluff,
blustering, boast, boastfulness, boasting, bombast, bombastry,
brag, braggadocio, braggartism, bragging, bravado, bullying,
bustle, claptrap, conceit, double-talk, drivel, drool, fanfaronade,
fiddle-faddle, fiddledeedee, flummery, flurry, fluster, folderol,
fudge, fuss, fustian, gabble, galimatias, gammon, gasconade,
gasconism, gibber, gibberish, gibble-gabble, gobbledygook,
hectoring, heroics, highfalutin, hocus-pocus, hot air, humbug,
intimidation, jabber, jactation, jactitation, jargon, mumbo jumbo,
narrishkeit, niaiserie, nonsense, pack of nonsense, palaver, prate,
prattle, rant, rigamarole, rigmarole, rubbish, side,
skimble-skamble, splutter, sputter, stuff and nonsense,
stultiloquence, swagger, swashbucklery, trash, trumpery, twaddle,
twattle, twiddle-twaddle, vanity, vaporing, vaunt, vauntery,
vaunting, waffling