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▪ I. boasting, vbl. n.1|ˈbəʊstɪŋ|
[f. boast v.1 + -ing1.]
1. Ostentatious or vainglorious speaking.
c1380Wyclif Serm. Sel. Wks. I. 408 Þe gospel telliþ of bosting of a proude man. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 90 b, Iactaunce or bostynge, ypocrisy or fayned holynes. 1607Shakes. Cor. ii. i. 23 Topping all others in boasting. 1830Tennyson Poems 32 Is not my human pride brought low? The boastings of my spirit still?
†2. Threatening, menacing language. Obs.
1600J. Melvill Diary (1842) 68 He braks out in coler & bosting.
Hence † ˈboastingful a.
1552in Huloet.
▪ II. ˈboasting, vbl. n.2
[f. boast v.2 + -ing1.]
1823P. Nicholson Pract. Build. 581 Boasting; in stone-cutting, paring the stone irregularly with a broad chisel and mallet; in carving, the rough cutting of the outline, before the minuter parts.
▪ III. ˈboasting, ppl. a.
[f. boast v.1 + -ing2.]
1. That boasts or brags.
1552Huloet, Boastynge or that doth boast, gloriosus. 1602N. Breton Mothers Bless. xiv, A boasting tongue is like a heard-mans horne. 1769Burke Pres. St. Nat. Wks. II. 117 After all the boasting speeches..of his faction.
†2. Threatening. Sc. Obs.
1646Row Hist. Kirk (1842) 324 Whilk occasioned the King to writ doune a verie sharp and boasting letter. 1820Scott Abbot Note L, Lindesay was arrived in a boasting, that is, threatening humour. |