Translation
to boast, to brag
Word origin
From Spanish fanfarrón, a braggart, by way of French fanfaron, and behind both of them the noise itself: fanfare is an imitation of a blast of trumpets. The word means what it sounds like, which is the rare case of an etymology you can hear.
- Origin
- Spanish, via French
- Root
- fanfarrón
- English cognates
- fanfare, fanfaron
Examples
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He brags about his new car at every party.
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Do not boast before you have won.
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The soldier boasted about wars he had never seen.
One of the few Esperanto roots that is openly onomatopoeic. A fanfaro is a blast of trumpets, the noise announcing that somebody important has arrived, and is making that noise about yourself. English blow your own trumpet is the same picture, arrived at independently.
o is the braggart, o the sustained performance. Note the preposition: you boast something, never or pro.
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