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An instance of boastful talk
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vaporing
Word definitions for vaporing in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vapor \Va"por\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Vapored ; p. pr. & vb. n. Vaporing .] [From Vapor , n.: cf. L. vaporare.] [Written also vapour .] To pass off in fumes, or as a moist, floating substance, whether visible or invisible, to steam; to be exhaled; to evaporate. ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (alt form vapouring English) vb. (present participle of vapor English)
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.