fanfaronade

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

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

   “[…] 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.”

2. isim Loud, showy display, celebration or proclamation (of something), sometimes involving the playing of trumpets or other musical instruments.

   “With a fanfaronade of welcome they lowered their drawbridges”

3. fiil To engage in empty, self-assertive boasting.
4. fiil To proclaim loudly; to promote enthusiastically.

   “[…] I criticised her straight Teutonic fringe and fanfaronaded on the captivating frizziness of Joanna’s hair.”

5. fiil To make a noisy, showy display or celebration; to play a fanfare.

   “Even when the inhabitants of the village took to rising at four o'clock in the morning, and fanfaronaded with ill-blown bugles, and flaring torches, and a dreadful untiring drum about the street, I forbore to grumble,”