His love of words has become something of a national fascination — he drops “farrago” and “rodomontade” on Twitter, sending followers scurrying for their dictionaries.

The rodomontade was, Laurel saw, a gag, but the essence of its truth was soon realized.

What eristic discipline they brought to their sciolistic quibbles, though prone to occasional bursts of rodomontade!

They wrestled the Americans toward the shed door affectionately, filling the night with manly blather and brotherly rodomontades.

She felt that this was not mere rodomontade, but that the man was perfectly capable of doing as he had said.