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Pronounced: het-uh-ROG-ruh-fee, noun

Notes: I could parse the word, but it didn’t help me with the definitions

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Yesterday’s word

The word fanfaronade is “empty boasting; bluster”

First usage

Our word came into English in the mid-1600s

Background / Comments

The word seems slightly familiar to me, but I cannot place where I may have heard it before. Now that you know the meaning of this word, you should be able to guess that a “fanfaron” is “a braggart” – but it is pretty uncommon and usually only found in unabridged dictionaries. If you think our word might be related to “fanfare”, you my be correct, but it isn’t clear. It is nice to have a word that does not trace back to Latin or Greek. Our word came from the French word fanfaronnade, which came from the Spanish word fanfarronada, which came from the Spanish word fanfarrón (a boaster).