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Answer for the clue "Empty boasting ", 11 letters:
braggadocio

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Braggadocio may refer to: Braggadocchio, a fictional character in the epic poem The Faerie Queene A braggart or empty boasting Braggadocio (rap) , a type of rapping Braggadocio (typeface) , a typeface Braggadocio, Missouri , a community in Missouri .

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A braggart.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Spenser's coinage, 1590, as a name for his personification of vainglory, from brag , with augmentative ending by analogy to the Italian words then in vogue in England. In general use by 1594 for "an empty swaggerer;" of the talk of such persons, from 1734. ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Braggadocio \Brag`ga*do"cio\, n. [From Braggadocchio, a boastful character in Spenser's ``Fa["e]rie Queene.''] A braggart; a boaster; a swaggerer. --Dryden. Empty boasting; mere brag; pretension.

Usage examples of braggadocio.

Where oaths and threats had issued from their mouths now came plaintive petitions for mercy, and those who had laughed with such bold braggadocio now wept like young girls, but Elric, full of his old battle-joy, spared none.

The giant spoke in a roaring, bull-like voice which I thought at the time was, like his swaggering walk and his braggadocio, but a pose to strike terror in those about him.

He had told of his adventures with the proper mixture of awe and braggadocio, recounted the wonders that he had seen, and returned to his studies and virtventures.

The north of Europe has its Gascons as well as the south of France, and the junior portion of the Russian army at this period assumed an absurd braggadocio tone.

I heard the story, told with mass braggadocio, with much laughter, my blood ran slower in my veins.

Harry nodded, with no hint of his usual braggadocio, looking like nothing more than a scared little boy.

This is pure braggadocio, intended to convey the information that Geffen has more money than God.

Insecurity teamed up with conceit, braggadocio with cowardice, selfishness with a need to be admired.

Nicholai said this last, without braggadocio and without British coyness, as he might have said he was left-handed, or green-eyed.

Unfortunately for his braggadocio, he let it leak out in some way that he had been well aware all the time that he would not be executed.

Colter did not recite his tales with the braggadocio of the seasoned yarner but with a conviction Hugh found vaguely unsettling.

At these reunions I had to play the part of host--to meet and entertain fat mercantile parvenus who were impossible by reason of their rudeness and braggadocio, colonels of various kinds, hungry authors, and journalistic hacks-- all of whom disported themselves in fashionable tailcoats and pale yellow gloves, and displayed such an aggregate of conceit and gasconade as would be unthinkable even in St.

SIR PALAMON: For that therefore I need not to the joust, to that bone-shattering sport of boastful, brutal braggadocios, but here, lapped soft in the gentle green, woo the fair Yolande-- JOCELYN: How, knight, the fair lady Yolande, say'st thou?

He had set them down as a set of landlubbers and braggadocios, and was disposed to treat them accordingly.

The poet in Le Cagot had confected for himself the role of the miles gloriosus, the Falstaffian clown—but with a unique difference: his braggadocio was founded on a record of reckless, laughing courage in numberless guerrilla actions against the fascist who oppressed his people in Spain.