Today's Word "Cockalorum"
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cockalorum \kah-kuh-LOR-um\ (noun) - 1 : A boastful and self-important person; 2 : boastful talk
"Now, did he survive, and succeed, he'd be puffed full of relief and joy, and breakfast would be a nigh-hysterically blissful explosion of high-cockalorum." -- Dewey Lambdin, 'Havoc's Sword'
From the obsolete Flemish word "kockeloeren," meaning "to crow." It dates back to 1715 when it was used to describe the Marquis of Huntly-son of the Duke of Gordon, a Celtic Highlander chief who was himself known as the "Cock of the North." The image of a rooster (a.k.a. cock) strutting confidently across the barnyard has given us "crow" ("to brag"), "cock" ("a self-important person"), and "cocky" ("overconfident").
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