Usually means: Swaggering braggart from Elizabethan drama.
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  1. Bobadil, bobadil: Merriam-Webster
  2. Bobadil, bobadil: Wordnik
  3. Bobadil: Wiktionary
  4. Bobadil: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  5. Bobadil: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  6. Bobadil: Merriam-Webster

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▸ noun:  A swaggering boaster.

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