rodomontade n vain and empty boasting Usage(s) Crane's rhapsody to Brooklyn Bridge was an unscientific, rummy rodomontade. Just as a firing squad is about to punctuate Gerard's career of rodomontade, Bonaparte steps before the muskets and saves his brigadier. It celebrates the chicanery of the human spirit, the love of raillery and rodomontade. Synonym(s) braggadocio bluster rhodomontade