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单词 to shake boast
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to shake boast
4. Phrases. †to blow (a) boast: to boast, brag (cf. blow v.1, blast n.1 3b, blaze v.2). to make (one's) boast: to boast of, to glory in; also absol.; so †to shake boast: cf. Latin jactari.
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the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > boast [verb (intransitive)]
yelpc888
kebc1315
glorify1340
to make avauntc1340
boast1377
brag1377
to shake boastc1380
glorya1382
to make (one's) boastc1385
crackc1470
avaunt1471
glaster1513
voust1513
to make (one's or a) vauntc1515
jet?1521
vaunt?1521
crowa1529
rail1530
devauntc1540
brave1549
vaunt1611
thrasonize1619
vapour1629
ostentate1670
goster1673
flourish1674
rodomontade1681
taper1683
gasconade1717
stump1721
rift1794
mang1819
snigger1823
gab1825
cackle1847
to talk horse1855
skite1857
to blow (also U.S. toot) one's own horn1859
to shoot off one's mouth1864
spreadeagle1866
swank1874
bum1877
to sound off1918
woof1934
to shoot a line1941
to honk off1952
to mouth off1958
blow-
c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women 267 Mak of ȝoure trouthe in loue no bost ne soun.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) iv. 122 The gret bost [1489 Adv. boist] that it [sc. pryde] blawis.
1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. lviiiv He shakyth boost and oft doth hym auaunte Of fortunes fauour.
1575 J. Rolland Treat. Court Venus iii. f. 41v Blaw furth ȝour boist busteous.
1594 (a1555) D. Lindsay Hist. Squyer Meldrum l. 266, in Wks. (1931) I. 153 Thair was, into the Inglis Oist, Ane Campioun that blew greit boist.
1611 Bible (King James) Psalms xxxiv. 2 My soule shall make her boast in the Lord. View more context for this quotation
1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam xxxix. 61 How often shall..she..bring her babe, and make her boast.
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to shake boast
b. figurative. Chiefly in phrases. †to shake boast: to boast, swagger. to shake the feather: see feather n. 8b. more than you can shake a stick at (and vars.): more than one can count, a considerable amount or number (colloquial, originally and chiefly U.S.).
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the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > boast [verb (intransitive)]
yelpc888
kebc1315
glorify1340
to make avauntc1340
boast1377
brag1377
to shake boastc1380
glorya1382
to make (one's) boastc1385
crackc1470
avaunt1471
glaster1513
voust1513
to make (one's or a) vauntc1515
jet?1521
vaunt?1521
crowa1529
rail1530
devauntc1540
brave1549
vaunt1611
thrasonize1619
vapour1629
ostentate1670
goster1673
flourish1674
rodomontade1681
taper1683
gasconade1717
stump1721
rift1794
mang1819
snigger1823
gab1825
cackle1847
to talk horse1855
skite1857
to blow (also U.S. toot) one's own horn1859
to shoot off one's mouth1864
spreadeagle1866
swank1874
bum1877
to sound off1918
woof1934
to shoot a line1941
to honk off1952
to mouth off1958
blow-
the world > relative properties > number > plurality > great number, numerousness > impossible to number [phrase]
out of numberc1325
without numberc1325
out of all scotch and notch1589
more than you can shake a stick at1818
c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 3645 After hym folwede & schoke bost xxxti þowsant on an host.
1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. lix Thou shakest boste [L. jactas] ofte of hir foly in vayne.
1818 Lancaster (Pa.) Jrnl. 5 Aug. 3/1 We have in Lancaster as many Taverns as you can shake a stick at.
1826 J. C. Neal Peter Brush I've..got more black eyes..than you could shake a stick at.
1835 D. Crockett Col. Crockett's Tour Down East 87 This was a temperance house, and there was nothing to treat a friend to that was worth shaking a stick at.
1843 ‘R. Carlton’ New Purchase I. xii. 86 Our queen snake was..retiring, attended by more of her subjects than we even dared to shake a stick at.
1883 R. W. Dixon Mano i. viii. 21 A reckless star Seemed shaking over him malific powers.
1904 J. C. Lincoln Cap'n Eri iv. 56 There's more Snows in Nantucket than you can shake a stick at.
1928 S. Lewis Man who knew Coolidge ii. 131 There was more posters and banners..than you could shake a stick at.
1939 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Ingleside xxi. 137 I had more beaus than you could shake a stick at.
1960 ‘E. McBain’ Give Boys Great Big Hand (1962) iv. 32 We get more damn cancellations than you can shake a stick at.
1982 Folio Spring 4 More consuls and dictators hanging from her family tree than a prudent man would shake a bundle of twigs at.
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