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Braggadocio is the proud talk itself — the show of “look what I have” or “look what I did,” not the person who says it. It is a rather grand, word. You meet it in careful writing more than in the school corridor; many people would just say “a lot of bragging.” Though actually, it often hints that the speaker may be stretching the truth, or covering a smaller real story with a bigger voice. A person brags; what comes out of their mouth can be called braggadocio.
自誇之詞、大吹大擂（較書面）
組成After Braggadocchio, a boastful character in Edmund Spenser’s long poem The Faerie Queene (1590). It is a made-up, Italian-sounding name built on English brag.
同家族的字
- bragSpenser built the character’s name from this English word
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
braggadocionoun/bɹaɡaˈdoːt͡ʃo/
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A braggart.
- […] 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.
- Having received an Inſult from Otho H. W. Luckett, for which he refuſed to make the Reparation demanded―I do declare him a Coward, a Bragadochio, and a Fellow, at whom the ☞ Finger of Contempt ſhould always be pointed.
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Empty boasting.
- He could not endure his airs as a man of fashion, and laughed heartily at his pompous braggadocio stories.
- He’s also come to be known for his braggadocio about his net worth during his 2016 run.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。