| 词汇 | braggadocio |
| 词源 | braggadocio. You will look high and low in Italian dictionar- ies for this word, to no avail. For it was invented by Edmund Spenser (1552–99) in The Faerie Queene. Spenser gave the name Braggadochio to a loud-mouthed braggart in his poem who was finally revealed as a coward, and may have based his character on the duc d’Alençon, a suitor of Queen Elizabeth. The word came to mean “any braggart,” and finally “empty or loud boasting.” |
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