gasconade

ഇംഗ്ലീഷ്

മറ്റു രൂപങ്ങൾ

• Gasconade

പദോത്പത്തി

français gasconnade}}.

ഉച്ചാരണം

• (UK) IPA: /ɡaskəˈneɪd/
• Rhymes: -eɪd

നാമം

gasconade ({{{1}}})

1. പൊങ്ങച്ചവർത്തമാനം
   • 1782, W. Cunningham Mallory, translation of Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Book III [1]:

     "This Gasconade surprised Le Maitre — 'You'll see,' said he, whispering to me, 'that he does not know a single note.'"

   • 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque Chapter III:

     "Just now... 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."

   • 1988, James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, Oxford 2004, p. 816:

     Nor was the president's talk of abundant and inexhaustible resources mere gasconade.

തർജ്ജമകൾ

• German: Gascognade f.

ക്രിയ

gasconade (third-person singular simple present gasconad, present participle es, simple past -, past participle -)

1. (obsolete, derogatory) പൊങ്ങച്ചത്തോടെ സംസാരിക്കുക
   • 1817, review of "Wilks's Historical Sketches of the South of India," in The Quarterly Review [2], page 57:

     "The Frenchman, not being able to bring the precise number, received only, as the first month's pay, 2,000 rupees. He demanded an audience, talked loud, and gasconaded."

   • 1847, Dorothy (Wordsworth) Quillinan, Journal of a Few Months Residence in Portugal and Glimpses of the South of Spain [3], page 246:

     "...he gasconaded on the theme of his personal exploits in the Seven Years' War of France in Spain, as if he had been as prime a sword-player as Murat..."

പര്യായപദങ്ങൾ

• bluster
• boast

ഉപയോഗക്കുറിപ്പുകൾ

19ആം നൂറ്റാണ്ടിനുശേഷം വിരളമായി ഉപയോഗിക്കപ്പെടുന്നു. കൂടുതലും ഫ്രഞ്ചുമായി ബന്ധപ്പെട്ട് ഉപയോഗിച്ചു കാണുന്നു.