braggadocio

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The Word of the Day for June 4 is:

braggadocio   \brag-uh-DOH-see-oh\   noun
    *1 : a loud arrogant boaster
     2 a : empty boasting  b : arrogant pretension : cockiness

Example sentence:
     In the novel, the murderer was a braggadocio, smugly sure 
of his own brilliance, but he ultimately gave himself away by 
confessing his crime within earshot of the police inspector.

Did you know?
     Though Braggadocio is not as well-known as other fictional 
characters like Pollyanna, the Grinch, or Scrooge, in 
lexicography he holds a special place next to them as one of the 
many characters whose name has become an established word in 
English. The English poet Edmund Spenser originally created 
Braggadocio as a personification of boasting in his epic poem 
_The Faerie Queene_. As early as 1594, about four years after 
the poem was published, English speakers began using the name as 
a general term for any blustering blowhard.

*Indicates the sense illustrated in the example sentence.