Fanfaronade

Quick meaning: Fanfaronade is a noun meaning Empty, self-assertive boasting; an instance of such behaviour.

Meaning

Empty, self-assertive boasting; an instance of such behaviour.

More Meanings

1. Loud, showy display, celebration or proclamation (of something), sometimes involving the playing of trumpets or other musical instruments.
2. (intransitive) To engage in empty, self-assertive boasting.
3. (ambitransitive) To proclaim loudly; to promote enthusiastically.
4. (intransitive) To make a noisy, showy display or celebration; to play a fanfare.

Example Sentences

With a fanfaronade of welcome they lowered their drawbridges

Mrs. Burnside indicated her disapproval of all this with a fanfaronade of flatulence.

[…] we sailed gracefully out of the hotel yard, Rattray too- tooing a fanfaronade on the horn.

“Cedric took us out to celebrate his signing a contract for his novel, being so damned ostentatious about his new affluence. I didn't want to rain on his fanfaronade […]”

Word Forms

• fanfaronades
• fanfaronading
• fanfaronaded

Synonyms for fanfaronade

Depending on context, synonyms include blare, blast, fanfare, ostentation, trumpet.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include rodomontade, swaggering, vaunting, rodomontado, ostentation, braggartism.

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