braggadocio
noun/ˌbræɡəˈdəʊtʃiəʊ/
/ˌbræɡəˈdəʊtʃiəʊ/
[uncountable] (from Italian, literary)- behaviour that seems too proud or confidentWord Originlate 16th cent. (denoting a boaster): from Braggadocchio, the name of a braggart in Spenser's The Faerie Queene, from brag or braggart + the Italian suffix -occio, denoting something large of its kind.
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