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gasconade

/ɡæskəˈneɪd/

gasconade noun: boastful talk.

Noun (1)

gasconade (countable and uncountable, plural gasconades)

  1. Boastful talk.
    • […] the Gasconads of France, Rodomontads of Spain, Fanfaronads of Italy, and Bragadochio brags of all other countries, could no more astonish his invincible heart, then would the cheeping of a mouse a bear robbed of her whelps.1652, Thomas Urquhart, “Εκσκυβαλαυρον [Ekskubalauron] (The Jewel)”, in The Works of Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty, Knight, Edinburgh: Thomas Maitland Dundrennan, published 1834, →ISBN, page 217
    • If the Author was Jesuite enough to say this to himself, before he wrote it, he may come off. If not, it will prove a most unconscionable Gasconade. Pate ᵃ was never Bishop of Rochester, but of Worcester; he was not Banish'd, but Fed; and this not in King Edward's time, but in King Henry's.1687, Reflections on the Historical Part of Church Government, volume 5, Oxford: Theatre, page 60

Adjective

gasconade (comparative more gasconade, superlative most gasconade)

  1. (obsolete) Of or pertaining to exaggeration or extravagant boasting; bombastic.
    • But Poetry and her sister arts are now in the decline; since the Gasconade style is out of date they seem quite at a stand.1714, Richard Steele, “A Journey to Paris in 1713”, in The Lover, & Selected Papers from "The Englishman", "Town Talk", "The Reader", "The Spinster", Boston: Lee and Shepard Publishers, published...

Verb (1)

gasconade (third-person singular simple present gasconades, present participle gasconading, simple past and past participle gasconaded)

  1. (derogatory, obsolete) To talk boastfully.
    • The Frenchman, not being able to bring the precise number, received only, as the first month's pay, 2,000 rupees. He demanded an audience, talked loud, and gasconaded.1817, The Quarterly Review, review of "Wilks's Historical Sketches of the South of India", page 57
    • […]he gasconaded on the theme of his personal exploits in the Seven Years' War of France in Spain, as if he had been as prime a sword-player as Murat[…]1847, Dorothy (Wordsworth) Quillinan, Journal of a Few Months Residence in Portugal and Glimpses of the South of Spain, page 246
    Synonyms:
    bluster, boast

Noun (2) capitalized: Gasconade

Gasconade (plural Gasconades)

  1. (alternative) Alternative spelling of gasconade.

Proper noun capitalized: Gasconade

Gasconade

  1. A small city in Gasconade County, Missouri, United States, named after the Gasconade River.
  2. the Gasconade River, a river in Missouri which flows into the Missouri River near the above town.

Verb (2) capitalized: Gasconade

Gasconade (third-person singular simple present Gasconades, present participle Gasconading, simple past and past participle Gasconaded)

  1. (alternative) Alternative spelling of gasconade.

Examples of gasconade in a sentence

  • "This Gasconade surprised Le Maitre — 'You'll see,' said he, whispering to me, 'that he does not know a single note.'"1782, Jean-Jacques Rousseau [W. Cunningham Mallory], Confessions, archived from the original on 08 Sep 2007, Book III:
  • "Just now... a cry from the opposite party who are content when they have enough, and like to look on and enjoy in the meanwhile, savours a little of bravado and gasconade."1874–1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 3, in Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers, London: C[harles] Kegan Paul & Co., […], published...
  • Nor was the president's talk of abundant and inexhaustible resources mere gasconade.1988, James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, Oxford 2004, page 816:
  • The message is a gamer's gasconade: We cheat, we steal, we eat your lunch.2020, Barton Gellman, Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State, Penguin, →ISBN, page 200:

Synonyms of gasconade

Forms of gasconade

Noun
pluralgasconades
alternative formGasconade
pluralGasconades
Adjective
comparativemore gasconade
superlativemost gasconade
Verb
third-person singular presentgasconades
present participlegasconading
past participlegasconaded
pastgasconaded
third-person singular presentGasconades
present participleGasconading
past participleGasconaded
pastGasconaded

Origin of gasconade

From French gasconnade, from Gascon (“native of Gascony”) + -ade, equivalent to Gascon (“native of Gascony”) + -ade, literally "to talk like a Gascon". See French gasconnade.

Words formed from gasconade

Words that rhyme with gasconade

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Questions about gasconade

What does gasconade mean?
Gasconade means boastful talk.
How do you use gasconade in a sentence?
"This Gasconade surprised Le Maitre — 'You'll see,' said he, whispering to me, 'that he does not know a single note.'"
What part of speech is gasconade?
Gasconade can be a noun, an adjective, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce gasconade?
Gasconade is pronounced /ɡæskəˈneɪd/.
What is the plural of gasconade?
The plural of gasconade is gasconades.

Words near gasconade in the dictionary

  1. Gascoignes
  2. Gascoine
  3. Gascoines
  4. Gascon
  5. Gascon Occitan
  6. gasconade
  7. Gasconade County
  8. gasconaded
  9. gasconader
  10. gasconaders
  11. gasconades

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