Rodomontade (noun)

This is one of those words that you first look at and go, “Wha?”

But, believe it or not, you can use this word in context quite easily, once you realize what the meaning of it is.

So, as defined by Merriam-Webster:

ro·do·mon·tade

1: a bragging speech

2: vain boasting or bluster : rant

Use in a Sentence:

“Edgar gave this huge rodomontade about how he was going to score with the hottest chick, Lula Taylor, at Sailor Johnson’s party that Saturday night – all the girls wanted him, he was so irresistible, he could go up to any girl and they would hook up with him. The whole time there… all he did was just sit in a corner and did nothing, barely making eye contact with anybody. And when Lula actually, ACTUALLY, walked by and asked if he wanted to dance, he barfed on her shoes. Score my ass.”

“Muhammad Ali was the king of rodomontade; constantly bragging about how he was going to whip this fighter and that fighter. And most of the time, he was right. But boy, he got shut up midway into the third fight with Joe Frazier. He started pummeling his ass.”

Synonyms:

bluster, brag, braggadocio, bull [slang], cockalorum, fanfaronade, gas, gasconade, grandiloquence, hot air, magniloquence, rant, bombast (also rhodomontade)

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