cockalorum

Meanings

1. A menial yet self-important person; a person who makes empty boasts.
2. Boastful speech, crowing.
3. A game similar to leapfrog.

Etymology

Possibly English cock (“rooster”), with -a- and Latin -lorum suffixed as a fanciful elaboration; or from a Dutch onomatopoeic dialect term kockeloeren (“the cry of a rooster; cock-a-doodle-doo”), hence the modern Dutch verb koekeloeren (“to crow”).