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fanfarons

fanfarons is the plural of fanfaron.

Meaning of fanfaron

Noun

fanfaron (plural fanfarons)

  1. (obsolete) A boaster; a braggart.
    • Peregrine glowing with resentment, called him a Fanfaron, and withdrew, in expectation of being followed into the street.1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC

Questions about fanfarons

What is fanfarons the plural of?
Fanfarons is the plural of fanfaron.

Words near fanfarons in the dictionary

  1. fanfaronas
  2. fanfaronnade
  3. fanfaronnaded
  4. fanfaronnades
  5. fanfaronnading
  6. fanfarons
  7. fanfest
  8. fanfests
  9. fanfic
  10. fanficced
  11. fanficcer

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fanfarons (page history and authors); fanfaron (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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