[Ads-l] antedating "braggadocious"

[Jonathan Lighter]

MW: 1853

1813 _The Sun_ (Pittsfield, Mass.) (June 17) 1: HULL, DECATUR, and
BAINBRIDGE, &c., &c., had taken the trouble to give these
_braggadocious_ a few lessons on _their own territory_....

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

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