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An instance of boastful talk
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vaporing
Word definitions for vaporing in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (alt form vapouring English) vb. (present participle of vapor English)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vaporing \Va"por*ing\, a. Talking idly; boasting; vaunting. -- Va"por*ing*ly , adv.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an instance of boastful talk; "his brag is worse than his fight"; "whenever he won we were exposed to his gasconade" [syn: brag , bragging , crow , crowing , line-shooting , gasconade ]
Usage examples of vaporing.
Nay, child, that was never me—I but spied betimes upon your hirelings as they hammered and tore at my house, vaporing endlessly the while.
Thank God, he is a good, sturdy Yugoslav, not a vaporing Frenchman prone to pitapatation.