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Pseudo-Italianism, coined after Braggadocchio, a boastful character in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene (1590).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
braggadocio
brag·ga·do·ci·oToday it means: A braggart. Full definition →
Today it means: A braggart. Full definition →
Pseudo-Italianism, coined after Braggadocchio, a boastful character in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene (1590).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.