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fanfaronnoun
bully
fanfaronnoun
boaster
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
FANFARONnoun
Etymology: French, from the Spanish. Originally in Arabick it signifies one who promises what he cannot perform. Menage.
There are fanfarons in the trials of wit too, as well as in feats of arms; and none so forward to engage in argument or discourse as those that are least able to go through with it. Roger L'Estrange.
Virgil makes Æneas a bold avower of his own virtues, which, in the civility of our poets, is the character of a fanfaron or hector. John Dryden, on Dramatick Poesy.
Webster Dictionary
Fanfaronnoun
a bully; a hector; a swaggerer; an empty boaster
Etymology: [F., fr. Sp. fanfarron; cf. It. fanfano, and OSp. fanfa swaggering, boasting, also Ar. farfr talkative.]
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of fanfaron in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of fanfaron in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
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