‖ blagueur
(blagœːr)
[Fr. (Robert, 1808), f. blague blague n. + -eur -er1.]
One who talks pretentiously; a joker or teller of tall stories.
| 1883 Sat. Rev. 14 Apr. 467/2 [It is] not the laughter of the true humourist, but that of the professional blagueur. c 1903 Wyndham Lewis Lett. (1963) 8, I went to a cabman in the rank, and he asked 5/–; so I left him as a blageur [sic]; but it appears that it is without the 4 mile radius, and it is 1/- a mile. 1950 A. L. Rowse Eng. of Elizabeth xii. 515 That marvellous adventurer and blagueur Anthony Shirley of All Souls. |