Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A glorying or vaunting; boastful or ostentatious words; bragging language.
- noun Synonyms Brag, bravado, bluster, swagger, swaggering, vainglory, rodomontade, parade, vaporing, rant.
- noun In masonry, the process of dressing the surface of a stone with a broad chisel and mallet.
- noun In sculpture and carving, the act of cutting a stone roughly with a boasting-chisel, so as to give it the general contour of a statue or an ornament. Also called
scabbling .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of glorying or vaunting; vainglorious speaking; ostentatious display.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
boast . - noun The making of
boasts .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun speaking of yourself in superlatives
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Examples
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Fresh from the garden it might have been once, but then it was preserved, processed, packaged, plastered with a label boasting how fresh it is then finally sent to wait for you in your supermarket.
Ellen Kanner: Meatless Monday: Listening To Your Broccoli 2009
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He also bankrolled Tennessee’s popular annual music festival, Bonnaroo, and cofounded ATO Records, a label boasting My Morning Jacket, David Gray, and Liz Phair.
Fortune’s Fool Fred Goodman 2010
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He also bankrolled Tennessee’s popular annual music festival, Bonnaroo, and cofounded ATO Records, a label boasting My Morning Jacket, David Gray, and Liz Phair.
Fortune’s Fool Fred Goodman 2010
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He also bankrolled Tennessee’s popular annual music festival, Bonnaroo, and cofounded ATO Records, a label boasting My Morning Jacket, David Gray, and Liz Phair.
Fortune’s Fool Fred Goodman 2010
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He also bankrolled Tennessee’s popular annual music festival, Bonnaroo, and cofounded ATO Records, a label boasting My Morning Jacket, David Gray, and Liz Phair.
Fortune’s Fool Fred Goodman 2010
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You get a modest pre-game overview with quotes from players and fans, stats for each quarter, the post-win boasting, the press conference interviews for each game and final trophy ceremony.
Michael Giltz: DVDs: Johnny Carson Outshines His Boxed Set Michael Giltz 2010
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I apologized if I missed the humor in boasting about being unemployed and taking psych courses.
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I know the rank and file believe the boasting from the front office that they are going to win so many seats this fall they will win back Congress, but I tell you, I just don't see it.
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You get a modest pre-game overview with quotes from players and fans, stats for each quarter, the post-win boasting, the press conference interviews for each game and final trophy ceremony.
Michael Giltz: DVDs: Johnny Carson Outshines His Boxed Set Michael Giltz 2010
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You get a modest pre-game overview with quotes from players and fans, stats for each quarter, the post-win boasting, the press conference interviews for each game and final trophy ceremony.
Michael Giltz: DVDs: Johnny Carson Outshines His Boxed Set Michael Giltz 2010
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