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111cracker — /krak euhr/, n. 1. a thin, crisp biscuit. 2. a firecracker. 3. Also called cracker bonbon. a small paper roll used as a party favor, that usually contains candy, trinkets, etc., and that pops when pulled sharply at one or both ends. 4. (cap.)… …
112fantast — /fan tast/, n. a visionary or dreamer. Also, phantast. [1580 90; < G, var. of Phantast < Gk phantastés boaster; mod. sense by assoc. with FANTASTIC] * * * …
113Gascon — /gas keuhn/, n. 1. a native of Gascony, France, the inhabitants of which were reputedly very boastful. 2. (l.c.) a boaster or braggart. adj. 3. pertaining to Gascony or its people. 4. (l.c.) boastful; bragging. [1325 75; ME gascoyne, gascoun < OF …
114literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… …
115macarena — /mah keuh ray neuh, ren euh/, n. (often cap.) a dance performed in a group line or solo and following a rhythmic pattern of arm, hand, and hip movements in time to a Spanish song. [1990 95; < Sp: fem. of macareno boaster, braggart] * * * …
116Capitano — ▪ Italian stock character stock character of the Italian commedia dell arte. He was the prototype of a pretentious but cowardly military man. One of the earliest of the commedia characters, he was a descendant of the Miles Gloriosus, the… …
117blowhard — noun A person who talks too much or too loudly, especially in a boastful or self important manner. The merchants are the most ultra Secessionists. . . . Some men of Northern origin were the most rabid. A blowhard, named James Patterson, of… …
118escheat — 1. noun a) The return of property of a deceased person to the state (originally to a feudal lord) where there are no legal heirs or claimants. Approching, with bold words and bitter threat, / Bad that same boaster, as he mote, on high / To leaue… …
119loudmouth — noun One who talks too much or too loudly, especially in a boastful or self important manner. I hear every word spoken by the loudmouth in the next office. Syn: big mouth, blowhard, blusterer …
120cockalorum — noun a) A menial, yet self important man, empty boaster b) The game leapfrog …
