gasconade

IPA: gˈæskʌnˈeɪd

Boastful talk.
A small city in Gasconade County, Missouri, United States, named after the Gasconade River.
the Gasconade River, a river in Missouri which flows into the Missouri River near the above town.
Alternative spelling of gasconade [Boastful talk.]

Examples of "gasconade" in Sentences

Gasconade Bridge train disaster.
The man likes to gasconade in public.
That was an ugly threat, if it was not mere gasconade.
The water warms quickly in the Gasconade, and the trout don't venture far.
Morrow said there was too much of that kind of gasconade in America, and that after our desperate struggle at home we would not be likely to engage in one with England.
With all the gasconade common to Orientals generally, the chiefs of the countries I have mentioned, are cowards at heart, tyrants as they are when opportunity offers; and they dread the sight of a ship of war in their harbours.
In fact, the as-yet-unbuilt yacht is so big, it's actually a "Gigayacht", the press release adds, with a touch of gasconade--as though the author of the release said to himself "hang on old chap, megayacht sounds a bit runty", and went one bigger.
Everything has the proper look of a spectacular gasconade, and the most spectacular ingredient of all is newcomer Catherine Zeta Jones, a Steven Spielberg discovery whose dark eyes, porcelain skin and meltingly radiant yet mischievous smile reminded me of the late, great Natalie Wood.
Just now, when every one is bound, under pain of a decree in absence convicting them of lese-respectability, to enter on some lucrative profession, and labour therein with something not far short of enthusiasm, a cry from the opposite party who are content when they have enough, and like to look on and enjoy in the meanwhile, savours a little of bravado and gasconade.