Boasting, vainglorious speaking. idle yelp, vain boasting. Obsolete.

Boasting, proud or pompous talk. Obsolete.

Boasting, vaunting, vainglory. Obsolete (Scottish in later use).

Proud or vain-glorious speech; ‘tall talk’; vaunt, brag; the expression of ostentation.

Boasting, self-glorification.

Boastfulness, boasting.

The action of the verb; boasting, bragging.

Arrogant or boastful language (in earlier examples usually in phrase brag and boast); boasting, boastful assertion. (Phrase French brag, common…

Boasting, self-glorification, vaunting.

Ostentatious or vainglorious speaking.

Boasting, self-glorification.

Arrogance, presumption; insolence. Cf. ogart, n.

The action of brag, v.

Boasting, bragging; boastful or vainglorious language or utterance; arrogant assertion or bearing.

Exaggerated talking, bragging, boasting. Obsolete or dialect.

Loud talk, boast, brag; hence, sometimes, exaggeration, lie. archaic or dialect. (In this sense there was a tendency in 16th cent. to use crake…

transferred and figurative.

Boasting; vainglorious speaking.

Vaunting, boasting; boastful or vainglorious bearing or show.

Bragging, boasting.

The action of glorying; boasting; triumphant exultation.

figurative. Boasting: cf. the phrase to blow one's own trumpet. Obsolete.

Bragging; vaunting speech.

Boasting, bragging, ostentatious display.

The action of boasting about oneself.

Thrasonic conduct; boastfulness.

= braggartism, n.

The characteristic practice of a braggart; bragging.

Boastfulness, vainglory; boasting.

Boasting.

Public or open declaration, esp. of a boastful sort; ostentatious affirmation; boasting, bragging.

boasting, idle talk.

Extravagant boasting or bragging; bravado; boastful or bombastic language.

Boisterous or arrogant language, boastful assertion, brag; ostentation; an instance of this.

Proud or arrogant speech.

The action of talking or acting in a high-flown or pretentious manner.

The delivering of a rodomontade; boasting, bragging; an instance of this.

figurative. A boast; vaunting, boastfulness.

the action of the verb.

Extravagant boasting or exaggeration; boastful or bombastic language; (also) an instance of this.

The action of boasting extravagantly; swagger, gasconade; (also) an instance of this.

Boastfulness.

The talk of such a person, empty vaunting.

Tendency to boast or exaggerate; swaggering character; (also) a boast. Cf. gasconade, n. Now rare.

= gasconade, n.

Brag; boasting.

a toy trumpet costing a penny; also figurative.

Self-important behaviour; conceitedness, vanity. Now rare.

The quality of being boastful.

Boasting, vaunting.

brag, swagger.

figurative. Boasting, bragging. U.S., Australian, etc. Cf. blow, v.1 6a.

Boastfulness.

Boasting or vaunting speech.

The action or practice of being a loudmouth; noisy, outspoken, or indiscreet talk.

Australian and New Zealand colloquial. Boasting, boastfulness; ostentation, show; conceit.

The action or practice of making an extravagant boast, esp. about one's own skills, prowess in combat, etc. Cf. gab, v.1 4. archaic or historical…

colloquial. Extravagant, insolent, or boastful talk; a propensity for this. Cf. to be all mouth at phrases 1m, and lip, n. 3c.

Talk, conversation; spec. boastful, bragging talk; insolence; esp. in old buck.

A tendency to ‘boost’ or seek to raise the estimation of (oneself, one's town, product, etc.) by praise; the expression of chauvinism.