(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 23:36:05

Fan"fa*ron (?), n. [F., fr. Sp. fanfarron; cf. It. fanfano, and OSp. fanfa swaggering, boasting, also Ar. farfar talkative.]

A bully; a hector; a swaggerer; an empty boaster.

[R.]

Dryden.

 

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