braggadocio/bɹaɡaˈdoːt͡ʃo/EtymologyAfter Braggadocchio, a boastful character in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene (1590), apparently a pseudo-Italian coinage.nounA braggart.“[…] 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.”Empty boasting.“He could not endure his airs as a man of fashion, and laughed heartily at his pompous braggadocio stories.”