Dictionary

gasconade en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ɡæskəˈneɪd/
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From French gasconnade, from Gascon (“native of Gascony”) + -ade, equivalent to Gascon (“native of Gascony”) + -ade, literally "to talk like a Gascon". See French gasconnade.

Meanings

1. (obsolete) Of or pertaining to exaggeration or extravagant boasting; bombastic.
   • But Poetry and her sister arts are now in the decline; since the Gasconade style is out of date they seem quite at a stand. 1714, Richard Steele, “A Journey to Paris in 1713”, in The Lover, & Selected Papers from "The Englishman", "Town Talk", "The Reader", "The Spinster", Boston: Lee and Shepard Publishers, published 1889, The Englishman, page 320:

Forms

gasconade en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ɡæskəˈneɪd/
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From French gasconnade, from Gascon (“native of Gascony”) + -ade, equivalent to Gascon (“native of Gascony”) + -ade, literally "to talk like a Gascon". See French gasconnade.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) Boastful talk.
   • "Just now... a cry from the opposite party who are content when they have enough, and like to look on and enjoy in the meanwhile, savours a little of bravado and gasconade." 1874–1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 3, in Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers, London: C[harles] Kegan Paul & Co., […], published 1881, →OCLC:
   • " The tricks, the Gasconnades, the buffooneries had gone." 1924, AEW Mason, “Chapter 23 The Truth about the Clock on the Marquetry Cabinet”, in The House of the Arrow:
   • If the Author was Jesuite enough to say this to himself, before he wrote it, he may come off. If not, it will prove a most unconscionable Gasconade. Pate ᵃ was never Bishop of Rochester, but of Worcester; he was not Banish'd, but Fed; and this not in King Edward's time, but in King Henry's. 1687, Reflections on the Historical Part of Church Government, volume 5, Oxford: Theatre, page 60:
   • "This Gasconade surprised Le Maitre — 'You'll see,' said he, whispering to me, 'that he does not know a single note.'" 1782, Jean-Jacques Rousseau [W. Cunningham Mallory], Confessions, archived from the original on 08 Sep 2007, Book III:
   • Nor was the president's talk of abundant and inexhaustible resources mere gasconade. 1988, James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, Oxford 2004, page 816:
   • The message is a gamer's gasconade: We cheat, we steal, we eat your lunch. 2020, Barton Gellman, Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State, Penguin, →ISBN, page 200:
   • […] 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. 1652, Thomas Urquhart, “Εκσκυβαλαυρον [Ekskubalauron] (The Jewel)”, in The Works of Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty, Knight, Edinburgh: Thomas Maitland Dundrennan, published 1834, →ISBN, page 217:
   • When it comes to the Middle East, presidents can’t resist indulging in a gasconade. 2025 June 28, Maureen Dowd, “Obfuscating on Obliterating”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Forms

Translations (10)

ko 자랑 (boastful talk) · cmn 口出狂言 (boastful talk) · ko 허풍 (boastful talk) · fr gasconnade (boastful talk) · ru гаскона́да (boastful talk) · cmn 大放厥詞 /大放厥词 (boastful talk) · ja 自慢話 (boastful talk) · de Gaskonade (boastful talk) · ru хвастовство́ (boastful talk) · bg самохвалство (boastful talk)

gasconade en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /ɡæskəˈneɪd/
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From French gasconnade, from Gascon (“native of Gascony”) + -ade, equivalent to Gascon (“native of Gascony”) + -ade, literally "to talk like a Gascon". See French gasconnade.

Meanings

1. (derogatory, obsolete) To talk boastfully.
   • For two hours, [Khrushchev] gasconaded about the tenfold revaluation of the ruble and the abolition of the Soviet income tax by 1965. 1986, Michael Beschloss, Mayday: Eisenhower, Khrushchev, and the U-2 Affair, page 64:
   • […]he gasconaded on the theme of his personal exploits in the Seven Years' War of France in Spain, as if he had been as prime a sword-player as Murat[…] 1847, Dorothy (Wordsworth) Quillinan, Journal of a Few Months Residence in Portugal and Glimpses of the South of Spain, page 246:
   • The Frenchman, not being able to bring the precise number, received only, as the first month's pay, 2,000 rupees. He demanded an audience, talked loud, and gasconaded. 1817, The Quarterly Review, review of "Wilks's Historical Sketches of the South of India", page 57:

Forms

Deriveds

gasconader

Synonyms

boast · bluster

Translations (2)

bg хваля се (To talk boastfully) · fr gasconner (To talk boastfully)