Bravado

Definition: Bravado

Bravado

Noun

1. A swaggering show of courage.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "bravado" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

Etymology: Bravado \Bra*va"do\ (br[.a]*v[=a]"d[-o]), noun, plural Bravadoes(-d[-o]z). [Spanish bravada, bravata, boast, brag: compare to French bravade. See Brave.]. (references)

Synonym: Bravado

Boasting

Noun: boasting; Verb: boast, vaunt, crake; pretense, pretensions; puff, puffery; flourish, fanfaronade; gasconade; blague, bluff, gas; highfalutin, highfaluting; hot air, spread-eagleism; brag, braggardism; bravado, bunkum, buncombe; jactancy; bounce; venditation, vaporing, rodomontade, bombast, fine talking, tall talk, magniloquence, teratology, heroics; Chauvinism; exaggeration.

Crosswords: Bravado

I suppose you expect my male bravado to kick in right now (Stargate SG-1; writing credit: Robert C. Cooper; Brad Wright)

All my false bravado seemed to disappear (When I Say; performing artist: Air Supply)

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Books

• No and Kyogen in the Contemporary World: Brilliance and Bravado, 1697-1766 (reference)

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Whatever Zaphod's qualities of mind might include - dash, bravado, conceit - he was mechanically inept and could easily blow the ship up with an extravagant gesture

She took a lover, the first comer, a man whom she did not love, through bravado, and with rage in her heart

Ruthie, in a burst of bravado, boosted her skirt and sat down

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Albanian

mburrje (arrogance, bluster, boast, bounce, brag, braggery, fanfaronade, gasconade, hokum, jactation, jactitation, puff, rodomontade, splurge, swank, talk big, vainglory, vaunt), kapadaillëk. (various references)

Arabic 

‏تبجح (bluster, blustery, boast, boastfulness, brag, crow, gasconade, jactitation, plume, rant, shoot a line, swagger, swank, swell, talk big, vaporize, vaunt), ‏إقحام (insertion, intercalation, interjection, interpolation, thrusting). (various references)

Bulgarian 

бабаитство, перчене (parade, peacockery, swagger, swank). (various references)

Czech

bravura. (various references)

Farsi 

پهلوان پنبه (Bully), لاف دلیری , خودستا (Bragger, Vainglorious), دلیردروغی . (various references)

Finnish

uhittelu (defiance). (various references)

French

bravade, fanfaronnade (brag, bragging). (various references)

German

Tapferkeit (boldness, braveness, bravery, courage, courageousness, fortitude, gallantry, prowess, stoutness, valor, valour). (various references)

Greek 

νταηλίκι (hectoring, swashbuckling). (various references)

Hebrew 

�"עז�" (audacity, daring, hazard, impertinence, insolence, nerve, temerity, venture). (various references)

Hungarian

virtuskodás (derring-do), színlelt harciasság, hencegő (brag, braggart, chesty, flaunting, flaunty, gassy, hectoring, magniloquent, pretentious), handabandázás (blustering, claptrap), hősködés. (various references)

Indonesian

mulut besar. (various references)

Italian

bravata (stunt). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

空元気 , 空威張り (bluffing, bluster). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

からいばり (bluffing, bluster), から�'�"き. (various references)

Manx

far-ghunnallys. (various references)

Pig Latin

avadobray.(various references)

Portuguese

bravata (braggery, rodomontade, swagger), baforada (bad breath, long exhalation, puff of smoke, whiff), fanfarronice (brag, braggadocio, braggery), desafio (challenge, dare, defiance, gage, tournament). (various references)

Romanian

bravadã. (various references)

Russian 

хвастовство (big talk, blague, blowing, boast, brag, braggery, bragging, gasconade, jactation, jactitation, ostentation, rodomontade, swank, vaunt), бравада, показная смелость. (various references)

Scottish

brabhdadh. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

razmetanje hrabrošću. (various references)

Spanish

bravata, baladronada, valentía (bravery, cortex, courage, courtesy, gallantry, grittiness). (various references)

Swedish

karskhet (cockiness, cock-shureness, cocksureness). (various references)

Turkish

meydan okuma (challenge, defiance), kurusıkı atma, kabadayılık (hectorship, hooliganism, rowdiness, rowdyism, toughness), cesaret gösterisi. (various references)

Ukrainian

бравада. (various references)

Welsh

bocsach (boast, brag, vaunt), gwagymffrost, gorchest (exploit, feat). (various references)

bravata. (various references)

bravade. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "bravado": bravadoes, bravados. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Bravado" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Baracaldo, Berenado, Brabagon, Bradano, bragad, brasato, bravad, bravada, bravady, bravodo, Brivati, Brovikov, gravado, Privado, Tratado, Travado. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: aboard, abroad.

-2 letters: board, brava, bravo, broad, dobra.

-3 letters: arvo, bard, boar, bora, brad, darb, drab, orad, road, vara.

-4 letters: aba, abo, ado, arb, ava, avo, baa, bad, bar, boa, bod, bra, bro, dab, dor, oar, ora, orb, ova, rad, rob, rod, var.

-5 letters: aa, ab, ad, ar, ba, bo, do, od, or.

+1 letter: bravados.

+2 letters: bravadoes.

+3 letters: aboveboard.

+4 letters: beaverboard.

+5 letters: beaverboards, overabundant, overbalanced.