Why this word is great
RODOMONT — [Noun] A vain or blustering boaster; a braggart. From French rodomont, from Italian rodomonte, from Rodomonte, a boastful Saracen king in Ariosto's Orlando Furioso. Unlike "braggadocio" (which winks at its own theatrical emptiness) or "gasconader" (which ties bluster to reckless regional bravado), a rodomont is a creature of pure, unselfconscious bombast, armored in self-regard. He is the strutting peacock in a court of lesser birds, the captain who claims to have single-handedly felled armies with a butter knife, the man who mistakes his own echo for applause—a figure so steeped in his own legend that even his lies begin to believe themselves.