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Noun: gasconade  `gasku'neyd
Usage: archaic
  1. An instance of boastful talk
    "whenever he won we were exposed to his gasconade"
    - brag, bragging, crow, crowing, vaporing [US], line-shooting, vapouring [Brit, Cdn]
Verb: gasconade  `gasku'neyd
Usage: archaic
  1. Show off
    - boast, tout, swash, shoot a line, brag, gas, blow, bluster, vaunt, skite [Austral, NZ]

Derived forms: gasconading, gasconades, gasconaded

Type of: amplify, boast, boasting, exaggerate, hyperbolise [Brit], hyperbolize, jactitation, magnify, overdraw, overstate, self-praise, skite [Austral, NZ]

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