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rodomontade

(rŏd'ə-mŏn-tād', -täd', rō'də-) pronunciation

Pretentious boasting or bragging; bluster: “a detestable compound of vulgarity and rodomontade” (John Morley).

adj.

Pretentiously boastful or bragging.

intr.v., -tad·ed, -tad·ing, -tades.

To boast or brag; bluster.

[French, from Italian rodomontada, from Rodomonte, arrogant Saracen leader in Orlando Innamorato by Matteo Boiardo and Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto.]

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Thesaurus: rodomontade

also rhodomontade

noun

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adjective

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attitude/good attitude/bad attitude/neutral attitude

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Literary Dictionary: rodomontade

rodomontade [rod‐ŏ‐mon‐tayd], a blusteringly boastful speech, or any arrogantly inflated manner of speaking or writing. See also bombast.

Obscure Words: rodomontade

a bragging speech ; vain boasting or bluster; rant

Wikipedia: rodomontade

Rodomontade is a mass noun meaning boastful talk or behavior. The term is a reference to Rodomonte, a character in Italian Renaissance epic poems Orlando innamorato and its sequel Orlando furioso.^[1]

Examples of use

A 19th century example of the use of the term can be found in The Adventures of Captain Bonneville by Washington Irving. Irving used it to describe the behavior of "free trappers", fur trappers who worked freelance and adopted the manner, habits, and dress of the native Americans. When free trappers visited Bonneville's camp, he welcomed them and ordered grog for everyone:

They [the free trappers] pronounced the captain the finest fellow in the world, and his men all bon garçons, jovial lads, and swore they would pass the day with them. They did so, and a day it was, of boast, and swagger, and rodomontade.

The word, with its alternative spelling (rhodomontade) is quoted in John Lukacs book Five Days in London May 1940. While describing the tempestous days of Churchill's first weeks in office, Lukacs quotes Alex Cadogan, a bureaucrat with the Foreign Office, counselling Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax who was complaining that he could no longer work with Churchill. Cadogan said:

Nonsense: his rhodomontades probably bore you as much as they do me, but don't do anything silly under the stress of that.

William F. Buckley used the word in a May 29, 1995 column in the National Review entitled "What does Clinton have in mind? - Pres. Clinton's attack on conservative radio broadcasts"; Buckley, asking rhetorically who Clinton was attacking, cited one theory:

The best those commentators could do who appeared on the MacNeil - Lehrer program was to quote an imprudent remark by Gordon Liddy, but what he said — that if any official came to his house to requisition his pistol, he'd better shoot straight — was more rodomontade than a call to arms or hatred.^[2]

References

^ Definition and history from World Wide Words
^ What does Clinton have in mind?, a 1995 National Review column using the term, via FindArticles.com

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Translations: Translations for: Rodomontade

Dansk (Danish)
n. - praleri, ordskvalder
v. intr. - prale, skryde

Nederlands (Dutch)
opschepper, opscheppend

Français (French)
n. - rodomontade
v. intr. - fanfaronner, se vanter
adj. - fanfaron

Deutsch (German)
n. - Prahlerei
adj. - großspurig
v. - prahlen

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - καυχησιολογία, κομπασμός
adj. - καυχησιάρικος, κομπαστικός
v. - καυχησιολογώ, κομπάζω

Italiano (Italian)
smargiassata, rodomontesco, fare una smargiassata

Português (Portuguese)
n. - fanfarronice (f)
adj. - fanfarrão
v. - contar bravatas

Русский (Russian)
хвастовство, хвастливый, хвастаться

Español (Spanish)
n. - fanfarronada, jactancioso, fanfarrón
v. intr. - jactarse, fanfarronear
adj. - jactancioso

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - skryt
adj. - skrytsamt
v. - skryta

中文（简体） (Chinese (Simplified))
大言不惭, 吹牛, 自吹自擂

中文（繁體） (Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 大言不慚, 吹牛
v. intr. - 大言不慚, 自吹自擂

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 호언장담, 허풍
v. intr. - 호언 장담하다, 허풍 떨다

日本語 (Japanese)
v. - 自慢する

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) تفاخر, تباه (صفه) متفاخر, متباه (فعل) يتفاخر, يتباهى‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮התרברבות, שחצנות‬
v. intr. - ‮התרברב, השתחץ‬

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