All grandstander synonyms
grandΒ·stand
G g noun grandstander
- sausage β minced pork, beef, or other meats, often combined, together with various added ingredients and seasonings, usually stuffed into a prepared intestine or other casing and often made in links.
- frankfurter β Felix, 1882β1965, U.S. jurist, born in Austria: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1939β62.
- lawmaker β a person who makes or enacts law; legislator.
- senator β a member of a senate.
- leader β a person or thing that leads.
- legislator β a person who gives or makes laws.
- officeholder β a person filling a governmental position; public official.
- swashbuckler β a swaggering swordsman, soldier, or adventurer; daredevil.
- blatherskite β a talkative silly person
- braggadocio β vain empty boasting
- peacock β the male of the peafowl distinguished by its long, erectile, greenish, iridescent tail coverts that are brilliantly marked with ocellated spots and that can be spread in a fan.
- swagger β to walk or strut with a defiant or insolent air.
- raver β to talk wildly, as in delirium.
- hotshot β highly successful and aggressive: a hotshot lawyer; a hotshot account exec.
- ranter β to speak or declaim extravagantly or violently; talk in a wild or vehement way; rave: The demagogue ranted for hours.
- partisan β a shafted weapon of the 16th and 17th centuries, having as a head a long spear blade with a pair of curved lobes at the base.
- boss β Your boss is the person in charge of the organization or department where you work.
- speaker β Tris(tram E.) 1888β1958, U.S. baseball player.
- orator β a person who delivers an oration; a public speaker, especially one of great eloquence: Demosthenes was one of the great orators of ancient Greece.
- president β (often initial capital letter) the highest executive officer of a modern republic, as the Chief Executive of the United States.
- chieftain β A chieftain is the leader of a tribe.
- democrat β A Democrat is a member or supporter of a particular political party which has the word 'democrat' or 'democratic' in its title, for example the Democratic Party in the United States.
- republican β of, relating to, or of the nature of a republic.
- pervert β to affect with perversion.
- flasher β a brief, sudden burst of bright light: a flash of lightning.
- egotist β A person who is excessively conceited or self-absorbed; self-seeker.
- exhibitionist β A person who behaves in an extravagant way in order to attract attention.
- blowhard β If you describe someone as a blowhard, you mean that they express their opinions very forcefully, and usually in a boastful way.
- boaster β a chisel for boasting stone.
- brag β If you brag, you say in a very proud way that you have something or have done something.
- braggart β a person who boasts loudly or exaggeratedly; bragger
- gossiper β idle talk or rumor, especially about the personal or private affairs of others: the endless gossip about Hollywood stars.
- know-it-all β a person who acts as though he or she knows everything and who dismisses the opinions, comments, or suggestions of others.
- windbag β Informal. an empty, voluble, pretentious talker.
- bragger β a person who brags.
- swelled head β an inordinately grand opinion of oneself; conceit.
- bag of wind β windbag.
- bluster β If you say that someone is blustering, you mean that they are speaking aggressively but without authority, often because they are angry or offended.
- gasbag β a bag for holding gas, as in a balloon or dirigible.
- show-off β a person given to pretentious display.
- trumpeter β a person who plays a trumpet; trumpet player.
- bigmouth β a noisy, indiscreet, or boastful person
- big-timer β Informal. the highest or most important level in any profession or occupation: She's a talented violinist, but she's not ready for the big time.
- gascon β a native of Gascony, France, the inhabitants of which were reputedly very boastful.
- strutter β to walk with a vain, pompous bearing, as with head erect and chest thrown out, as if expecting to impress observers.
- dog β a domesticated canid, Canis familiaris, bred in many varieties.
- frank β direct and unreserved in speech; straightforward; sincere: Her criticism of my work was frank but absolutely fair.
- red-hot β red with heat; very hot.
- wiener β Norbert, 1894β1964, U.S. mathematician: pioneer in cybernetics.
- flaunter β to parade or display oneself conspicuously, defiantly, or boldly.