braggadocious

[Jonathan Lighter]

I warned about this in 2008. Now it's back.  CNN anchor Brooke Baldwin used
the word _braggadocious_ while interviewing an FBI official, who responded
"They were very much braggadocious about what they had done."

63,000 raw G hits - and that's only for the most sophisticated spelling.

The closest the OED comes is "braggadocian," which is almost the same thing,
except that it went away three hundred years ago.

JL

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"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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