boast

[boast]

When you boast you are bragging about yourself and your accomplishments (or maybe those of your family), often to the boredom and annoyance of your audience.

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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.

Noun
speaking of yourself in superlatives

Verb
show off

Verb
wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner; "she was sporting a new hat"

v. i.
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.

v. i.
To speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult.

v. t.
To display in ostentatious language; to speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol.

v. t.
To display vaingloriously.

v. t.
To possess or have; as, to boast a name.

v. t.
To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel.

v. t.
To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form required.

n.
Act of boasting; vaunting or bragging.

n.
The cause of boasting; occasion of pride or exultation, -- sometimes of laudable pride or exultation.

Boast

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'94sa 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.

2. To speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult.

In God we boast all the day long.

Syn. -- To brag; bluster; vapor; crow; talk big.

Boast

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.

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.

Boast

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

Boast, n. 1. Act of boasting; vaunting or bragging.

Reason and morals? and where live they most, In Christian comfort, or in Stoic boast!

2. The cause of boasting; occasion of pride or exultation, -- sometimes of laudable pride or exultation.

The boast of historians.

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.

To display in ostentatious language; to speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol.

To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel.

Act of boasting; vaunting or bragging.

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Usage Examples

It's kind of amazing how popular 'Grey's Anatomy' is. What other show can boast such an annoyingly sincere cast of doctors, sniveling through such perfunctory love triangles?

Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.

Let who will boast their courage in the field, I find but little safety from my shield, Nature's, not honour's law we must obey: This made me cast my useless shield away.

I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.

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Other Usage Examples

It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church.

Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.

It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.

If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.

It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.

Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order and increasing by staying in port but know he finds, I fancy, if Emperors hear the truth, that his fleet suffers more in a night than ours in one year.