braggadocio

[…] the Gasconads of France, Rodomontads of Spain, Fanfaronads of Italy, and Bragadochio brags of all other countries, could no more astonish his invincible heart, then would the cheeping of a mouse a bear robbed of her whelps.

He could not endure his airs as a man of fashion, and laughed heartily at his pompous braggadocio stories.