braggart
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The man inside all these textiles has a stupendous ego, and the only characters who come near him in all of fiction are Spenser's Braggadochio and Plautus' Braggart Warrior.
From Time Magazine Archive
The correct response to this is to be found in one of Aesop’s fables, ‘The Braggart’.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
In the folios the direction is, enter Braggart and Moth, and at the beginning of every speech of Armado stands Brag, both in this and the foregoing scene between him and his boy.
From Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies by Johnson, Samuel
Braggart and liar, he had made the common people believe that it was he who had cut off the head of the governor of the Bastille.
From The Companions of Jehu by Dumas père, Alexandre
Braggart, and prince of braggarts is he, Pouring boasts from his little throat: Bob-o'-link, bob-o'-link, Spink, spank, spink, Never was I afraid of man; Catch me, cowardly knaves, if you can, Chee, chee, chee.
From The Posy Ring A Book of Verse for Children by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith
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