Saturday, March 8, 2014

Braggadocio vs Brag

Braggadocio is:

A) a community in Missouri

B) a character in Spencer's play  The Faerie Queen

C) a bragging style of rap music

yep, all of the above

but braggadocio most often means to lie in a cocky way about something that's not true,
giving you a neat way to call someone both a braggart and a liar at the same time

The origin is
1) the word brag (from around the year 1450)
2) Year 1590 - 1596 the name of the character in the play "Faerie Queen" was so named
    from the word brag + occio from the Italian meaning "something large of its kind"

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