Definition of "gasconader" [gas•con•ad•er]

• A great boaster; a blusterer. (noun)

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• "Smyth, an empty gasconader, was regarded, even by his own troops, with contempt, and had to fly from the camp to escape their indignation."
• "They attributed the success of the Gascon poet to the liveliness of the southerners, who were excited by the merest trifles; and they suspected that Jasmin, instead of being a poet, was but a clever gasconader, differing only from the rest of his class by speaking in verse instead of prose."
• "Patting her on the head, he replied, "Then I am a gasconader, am I?""