Fanfaron

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Fanfaron \Fan"fa*ron\, n. [F., fr. Sp. fanfarron; cf. It.
     fanfano, and OSp. fanfa swaggering, boasting, also Ar.
     farf[=a]r talkative.]
     A bully; a hector; a swaggerer; an empty boaster. [R.]
     --Dryden.
     [1913 Webster]