Bobadil

English

Alternative forms

• Bobadill

Etymology

Name of such a character in Ben Jonson's 1598 play Every Man in his Humour.

Noun

Bobadil (plural Bobadils)

1. A swaggering boaster.
   • 1897, Stanley John Weyman, chapter XII, in Shrewsbury:

     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.

Derived terms

• Bobadilian
• Bobadilish
• Bobadilism