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Fanfaronade (Noun)

原创 IT综合 作者:Binna 时间:2007-02-28 12:06:34 0 删除 编辑

Definition 1: Verbal fanfare: boasting or blustering boisterously.

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Usage 1: A person given to fanfaronades is a "fanfaron."

Suggested usage: "Emile is quite an amiable fellow but a fanfaron par excellence." The great advantage of fanfaron over "blusterer, boaster," or "braggart" is its connotative association with "fanfare." "He introduced his daughter with a fanfaronade that embarrassed her so much she interrupted him."

Etymology: French fanfaronnade, from Spanish fanfarronada "bluster" from fanfarrón "braggart." Spanish may have borrowed it from the Arabic farfar "talkative" from farfara "to become agitated or talkative." (Chlyde Russano put us on the trail of "fanfaronade," a far more fetching word than "boasting" or "bragging.")

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