cockalorum | Definition of cockalorum

Synonyms and Antonyms of cockalorum

1 boastful speech or writing

a boxer who was as famous for his prefight cockalorum as for his knockouts in the ring

Synonyms of cockalorum

bluster, bombast, brag, braggadocio, bull [slang], fanfaronade, gas, gasconade, grandiloquence, hot air, magniloquence, rant, rodomontade (also rhodomontade)

Words Related to cockalorum

oratory, rhapsody, rhetoric

pomposity, turgidity, wind

bloviation, verbosity, windiness

babble, blab, chatter, drivel, gabble, gibber, gibberish, jabber, prattle

jawing, patter, prating, yammering

egotism, self-conceit, self-importance, swagger, vaunt

2 someone who boasts

Muhammad Ali's reputation as boxing's most colorful cockalorum

Synonyms of cockalorum

blower, blowhard, boaster, brag, braggadocio, braggart, bragger, cracker [chiefly dialect], gascon, gasconader, swaggerer, vaunter

Words Related to cockalorum

blusterer, cock

self-advertiser, self-dramatizer, self-promoter