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Boast Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Boast?
[n] speaking of yourself in superlatives
[v] show off [v] wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner; "she was sporting a new hat" Synonyms | Synonyms for Boast: blow | bluster | boasting | brag | feature | gas | gasconade | jactitation | self-praise | shoot a line | sport | swash | tout | vaunt Related Terms | Find terms related to Boast: aggrandize | be enfeoffed of | be possessed of | be seized of | blow | bluster | boastfulness | boasting | bombast | bounce | brag | braggadocio | braggartism | bragging | bravado | bully | catch | claim | cock-a-doodle-doo | command | conceit | crow | diamond | draw the longbow | ego-trip | enjoy | exalt | fanfaronade | fill | find | fish for compliments | flaunt | flourish | gasconade | gasconism | gem | glory | godsend | good thing | gush | have | have and hold | have in hand | have no self-doubt | have tenure of | heroics | hold | jactation | jactitation | jewel | know it all | mouth | occupy | parade | pearl | pique | plum | plume | possess | prate | preen | pride | pride and joy | prize | puff | quack | rodomontade | ruffle | show off | side | speak for Buncombe | squat | squat on | swagger | swash | swashbuckle | talk big | treasure | triumph | trophy | trouvaille | usucapt | vanity | vapor | vaunt | vauntery | vaunting | windfall | winner See Also | amplify | bluster | brag | braggadocio | bragging | crow | crow | crowing | exaggerate | gloat | have | hyerbolise | hyperbolize | line-shooting | magnify | overdraw | overstate | puff | rhodomontade | rodomontade | self-assertion | speech act | triumph | vaporing | vaunt Boast In Webster's Dictionary \Boast\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Boasted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Boasting}.] [OE. bosten, boosten, v., bost, boost, n.,
noise, boasting; cf. G. bausen, bauschen, to swell, pusten,
Dan. puste, Sw. pusta, to blow, Sw. p["o]sa to swell; or W.
bostio to boast, bost boast, Gael. bosd. But these last may
be from English.]
1. To vaunt one's self; to brag; to say or tell things which
are intended to give others a high opinion of one's self
or of things belonging to one's self; as, to boast of
one's exploits courage, descent, wealth.
By grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of
yourselves: . . not of works, lest any man should
boast. --Eph. ii. 8,
9.
2. To speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to
exult.
In God we boast all the day long. --Ps. xliv. 8
Syn: To brag; bluster; vapor; crow; talk big.
\Boast\, v. t. 1. To display in ostentatious language; to speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol. Lest bad men should boast Their specious deeds. --Milton. 2. To display vaingloriously. 3. To possess or have; as, to boast a name. {To boast one's self}, to speak with unbecoming confidence in, and approval of, one's self; -- followed by of and the thing to which the boasting relates. [Archaic] Boast not thyself of to-morrow. --Prov. xxvii. 1 \Boast\, v. t. [Of uncertain etymology.] 1. (Masonry) To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel. --Weale. 2. (Sculp.) To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form required. \Boast\, n. 1. Act of boasting; vaunting or bragging. Reason and morals? and where live they most, In Christian comfort, or in Stoic boast! --Byron. 2. The cause of boasting; occasion of pride or exultation, -- sometimes of laudable pride or exultation. The boast of historians. --Macaulay. |
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