BRAGGAWHAT ?

Wordsmiths were sent into a frenzy when Trump dropped a peculiar word he has uttered before: braggadocious. At one point, he described his “tremendous income” but clarified he didn’t mean to say that in a “braggadocious way.” The folks at Merriam-Webster dictionary chimed in on Twitter to say that what Trump was probably going for was braggadocio. But others suggested braggadocious is an acceptable, albeit informal, adjectival version of the word. Whatever the case, searches for the word on Google and dictionary. com spiked dramatically.