gasconade : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: gasconade	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for gasconade
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
gasconade n an instance of boastful talk; "his brag is worse than his fight"; "whenever he won we were exposed to his gasconade" Synonym(s): brag, bragging, crow, crowing, vaporing, line-shooting, gasconade v show off [syn: boast, tout, swash, shoot a line, brag, gas, blow, bluster, vaunt, gasconade]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Gasconade \Gas`con*ade"\, n. [F. gasconnade, from Gascon an inhabitant of Gascony, the people of which were noted for boasting.] A boast or boasting; a vaunt; a bravado; a bragging; braggodocio. --Swift.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Gasconade \Gas`con*ade"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Gasconaded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Gasconading}.] To boast; to brag; to bluster.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Gasconade, MO (city, FIPS 26578) Location: 38.66936 N, 91.56029 W Population (1990): 253 (160 housing units) Area: 0.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)