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Boasting or
bragging is
speaking with
excessive pride and self-satisfaction
about one's achievements, possessions, or abilities.
Boasting occurs when someone...
- (the
braggart soldier) are two
types of alazṓn. Look up
miles gloriosus in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Miles Gloriosus (literally, "
braggart-soldier"...
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source for
Miles Gloriosus was a Gr**** play, now lost,
called Alazon or The
Braggart.
Although the
characters in
Miles Gloriosus speak Latin, they are Gr****s...
- one
aspect of the
tragic hero as well: the
touch of
miles gloriosus ("
braggart soldier") in Tamburlaine, even in Ot****o, has been
commented upon, as...
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Eyvind Braggart is a quasi-historical
figure and is a
character in Egil's Saga.
Eyvind was one of
Queen Gunnhild's brothers.
Queen Gunnhild convinces Eyvind...
- from Braggadocchio, the name of a
braggart in Spenser's The
Faerie Queene. It is a
composite of the word brag or
braggart, and the
Italian suffix -occio...
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Eddie Haskell (Ken Osmond), the
archetype of the two-faced wise guy, a
braggart among his
peers and an
obsequious yes man to the
adults he
mocks behind...
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carries out
their joint escape.
Though friendly, he is also vain and a
braggart until his
encounter with
Aslan late in the story. The last King of Narnia...
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vacation fly by as he
tries to
satisfy everyone. 106 8-2 My Ancestor, The
Braggart ホラふき御先祖
Nobita asked his dad
about his ancestors,
after he doesn't know...
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Robert Debs,
Dictionary of
Military and
Naval Quotations,
Plautus in The
Braggart Captain (3rd
century AD),
Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 1978. Nafziger...
