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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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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...
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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...
- of the
social classes, is
realised with
stock characters, such as the
braggart soldier of
Ancient Gr**** comedy, and the fop and the rake of
English Restoration...
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prostitution and wife swapping.
Although Gacy was
considered ambitious and a
braggart, the
Jaycees held him in high
regard for his
fundraising work: in 1967...
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narratives in
which he has
alternated between yearning romantic and
easygoing braggart.
Culture critic Nelson George ****erts that,
along with Miguel,
Ocean has...
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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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Robert Debs,
Dictionary of
Military and
Naval Quotations,
Plautus in The
Braggart Captain (3rd
century AD),
Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 1978. Nafziger...
- twin sons,
Lurkalot first and then Richard. But the nobles, led by Sir
Braggart de Bombast,
abduct baby
Lurkalot and
abandon him in a
forest to die. He...
