thrasonical

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Like Thraso (a character in the play Eunuchus by Terence); boastful, bragging, vainglorious

In amongst his general thrasonical ranting and ravings concerning his own merits, Skogan had promised the company that tomorrow the world would know how good his verses were – when he read aloud at the court gate some poem which he had written in honour of the birthday of Thomas, Duke of Clarence.

{a} boasting, bragging, blustering, big
Being brash and boastful
{s} boastful, arrogant, proud; pertaining to Thraso of the Roman comedy Eunuchus
Of or pertaining to Thraso; like, or becoming to, Thraso; bragging; boastful; vainglorious
thrasonical

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    thra·son·i·cal

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    Etymologie

    () Via Latin from Greek Θρασων (a boastful soldier in Terence’s Eunuchus), from θρασυς ‘bold, spirited’.
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