See Bobadil on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1897, Stanley John Weyman, chapter XII, in Shrewsbury:",
"text": "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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"A swaggering boaster."
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