Braggadocio, Missouri


Braggadocio is an unincorporated community in Pemiscot County, Missouri, United States. It is located west of Caruthersville on Missouri Route J and north of Steele on Route Z.

History

Braggadocio was founded circa 1847. A post office called Braggadocio has been in operation since 1881. Possibly the community was named because a large share of the early settlers were braggarts, or after the knight and horse thief Sir Braggadoccio, in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene. Braggadocio has been noted for its unusual place name.