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/ˌfænfɛɹəˈneɪd/ · noun
Empty, self-assertive boasting; an instance of such behaviour..
1828, Walter Scott, The Surgeon’s Daughter in Chronicles of the Canongate, Boston: Samuel H. Parker, p. 78, [he] was an enemy to every thing that approached to fanfaronade, and knew enough of the world to lay it down as a sort of general rule, that he who talks a great deal of fighting is seldom a brave soldier
[…] 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.
Until 1932 they had been right. National Socialism had been a stigma. Among well-born Germans, the Nazi party was regarded as coarse. But that autumn, they were beginning to understand that the door of history had been shut on their Augustan Age of princes and potentates and plumed marshals and glittering little regular armies—on all the fanfaronade that had marked their disciplined, secure world.
“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 […]”
1877, Frances Hodgson Burnett, That Lass o’ Lowrie’s, London: F. Warne, p. 55, he dined in public—a fanfaronade of trumpets proclaiming his down-sitting and his up-rising
With a fanfaronade of welcome they lowered their drawbridges
[…] we sailed gracefully out of the hotel yard, Rattray too- tooing a fanfaronade on the horn.
Mrs. Burnside indicated her disapproval of all this with a fanfaronade of flatulence.
Use fanfaronade when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Fanfaronade means Empty, self-assertive boasting; an instance of such behaviour..
Common synonyms include blare, blast, fanfare, ostentation.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
1828, Walter Scott, The Surgeon’s Daughter in Chronicles of the Canongate, Boston: Samuel H. Parker, p. 78, [he] was an enemy to every thing that approached to fanfaronade, and knew enough of the world to lay it down as a sort of general rule, that he who talks a great deal of fighting is seldom a brave soldier
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