Bobadil

English

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Etymology

Name of such a character in Ben Jonson's 1598 play Every Man in his Humour.

Noun

Bobadil (plural Bobadils)

  1. A swaggering boaster.
    • 1897, Stanley John Weyman, chapter XII, in Shrewsbury:
      But in a minute they came out again, apparently satisfied, and crowded down stairs; whereon the man behind the curtain laughed again, and swaggering out, Bobadil-like, shook his fist with furious gestures after them.

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