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Date: 1500-1600
Origin: Braggadocchio proud-talking character in the poem The Faerie Queen (1590) by Edmund Spenser

braggadocio

 noun
     
brag‧ga‧do‧ci‧o [uncountable] especially literary
proud talk about something that you claim to own, to have done etc
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