Gascon
英 ['ɡæskən]
美
- n. 吹牛的人；法国加斯科涅（Gascony）的人
英文词源
- Gascon
- "native of Gascony," late 14c., from Middle French Gascon, from Vulgar Latin *Wasco, from Latin Vasco, singular of Vascones, the name of the ancient inhabitants of the Pyrénées (see Basque). Among the French, proverbially a boastful people, hence gasconade (n.), "bragging talk" (1709).