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English
Etymology
Name of such a character in Ben Jonson's 1598 play Every Man in his Humour.
Noun
Bobadil (plural Bobadils)
- 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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