boastingn.1
/ˈbəʊstɪŋ/ 1. Ostentatious or vainglorious speaking.
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the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > [noun]
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crackingc1440
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jactancea1492
vaunterya1492
bragancea1500
gloriation?1504
blasta1513
vousting1535
braggery?1571
jactation1576
self-boasting1577
thrasonism1596
braggartry1598
braggartism1601
jactancy1623
braggadocianism1624
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jactitation1632
word-braving1642
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fanfaronade1652
superbiloquence1656
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gasconade1709
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vauntingness1727
braggadocioa1734
Gasconism1744
Gascoigny1754
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gostering1763
penny trumpet1783
cockalorum?a1792
boastfulness1810
vauntage1818
bull-flesh1820
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vauntiness1851
kompology1854
loud-mouthing1858
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boosterism1926
c1380 Eng. Wycliffite Serm. in Sel. Wks. I. 408 Þe gospel telliþ of bosting of a proude man.
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. FFiiiv Iactaunce or bostyng, ipocrisy or fayned holynesse.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) ii. i. 20 Topping all others in boasting . View more context for this quotation
1830 Ld. Tennyson Poems 32 Is not my human pride brought low? The boastings of my spirit still?
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > threat or threatening > [noun] > verbal threatening
beotOE
i-beotc1000
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bug word1546
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vowing1886
a1614 J. Melville Autobiogr. & Diary (1842) 68 He braks out in coler & bosting.
Derivatives
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1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
boastingn.2
The action of boast v.2
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or constructing with stone > [noun] > other processes
raggling1500
rigalding1688
tailing1700
rusticating1749
rustication1766
knobbling1785
boasting1823
wind-pinning1833
stroking1842
garreting1845
hearting1858
knobbing1875
ripple-flaking1883
retouch1885
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > sculpture or carving > [noun] > processes or techniques
hatchet work1697
bossage1704
rusticating1749
boasting1823
chiselling1835
marmotinto1844
pointing1845
modelling1865
petroglyphy1882
pointillé1893
ganosis1911
1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 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.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
boastingadj.
1. That boasts or brags.
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the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > [adjective]
jettingc1450
cracking1528
bragging1530
vousting1535
boasting1552
vaunting1589
cock-a-doodle-dooing1599
flourishing1616
vapouring1647
rodomontading1691
gasconade1714
gasconading1717
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Boastynge or that doth boast, gloriosus.
1602 N. Breton Mothers Blessing xiv A boasting tongue is like a heard-mans horne.
1769 E. Burke Observ. Late State Nation 53 After all the boasting speeches..of his faction.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > threat or threatening > [adjective] > verbally
boasting1646
1646 J. Row Hist. Kirk Scotl. (1842) 324 Whilk occasioned the King to writ doune a verie sharp and boasting letter.
1820 W. Scott Abbot Note L Lindesay was arrived in a boasting, that is, threatening humour.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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ˈboasting
ˈboasting n.extracted from boastv.3n.2<
n.1c1380n.21823adj.1552as lemmas