Crossword clues for boast
boast
- Toot your own horn
- Sing one's own praises
- Vain claim
- Big talk
- Talk oneself up
- Talk a big game
- Talk the talk
- Show off, in a way
- Immodest claim
- Talk a good game
- Let out hot air?
- Egotistical utterance
- Blowhard's offering
- Be vainglorious
- "We're #1!," e.g
- "I'm king of the world!" e.g
- Vocal self-praise
- Vain avowal
- Talk conceitedly
- Speak without humility
- Speak with swagger
- Speak with pride
- Speak well of oneself
- Shape with a chisel
- Humblebrag, really
- Exhibit immodesty
- Engage in self-praise
- Emulate Major Hoople
- Do some chest-thumping
- Display braggadocio
- Dispense with modesty
- Cause for pride
- Bit of braggadocio
- Be proud of
- Be braggadocious
- "Veni, vidi, vici," for one
- ''We're number one!'' is one
- Swagger
- "My dad's bigger than your dad," e.g.
- Crow
- Trumpet
- "We're #1!," e.g.
- "Veni, vidi, vici," e.g.
- Dispense with all modesty
- Act the blowhard
- "Look, ma, no cavities!," e.g.
- Talk big
- "I'm king of the world!," e.g.
- Display strong self-esteem
- Show no modesty
- Blowhard's claim
- "I came, I saw, I conquered," e.g.
- Toot one's horn
- "I am the greatest," e.g.
- Speaking of yourself in superlatives
- Gasconade
- Rodomontade
- Reason for pride
- Brag
- Blow one's own horn
- Egotist's claim
- Toot one's own horn
- Vaunt
- Exult
- Show one's vanity
- Son in ship shot off the side wall
- Something fired up under black crow
- Pride of winners finally seen in Finn?
- Brag, crow
- Blow one's own trumpet
- Sound off
- Blow one's horn
- Be a braggart
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Boast \Boast\, v. t.
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To display in ostentatious language; to speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol.
Lest bad men should boast Their specious deeds.
--Milton. To display vaingloriously.
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To possess or have; as, to boast a name.
To boast one's self, to speak with unbecoming confidence in, and approval of, one's self; -- followed by of and the thing to which the boasting relates. [Archaic]
Boast not thyself of to-morrow.
--Prov. xxvii. 1
Boast \Boast\, v. t. [Of uncertain etymology.]
(Masonry) To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel.
--Weale.(Sculp.) To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form required.
Boast \Boast\, n.
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Act of boasting; vaunting or bragging.
Reason and morals? and where live they most, In Christian comfort, or in Stoic boast!
--Byron. -
The cause of boasting; occasion of pride or exultation, -- sometimes of laudable pride or exultation.
The boast of historians.
--Macaulay.
Boast \Boast\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Boasted; p. pr. & vb. n. Boasting.] [OE. bosten, boosten, v., bost, boost, n., noise, boasting; cf. G. bausen, bauschen, to swell, pusten, Dan. puste, Sw. pusta, to blow, Sw. p["o]sa to swell; or W. bostio to boast, bost boast, Gael. bosd. But these last may be from English.]
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To vaunt one's self; to brag; to say or tell things which are intended to give others a high opinion of one's self or of things belonging to one's self; as, to boast of one's exploits courage, descent, wealth.
By grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: . . not of works, lest any man should boast.
--Eph. ii. 8, 9. -
To speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult.
In God we boast all the day long.
--Ps. xliv. 8Syn: To brag; bluster; vapor; crow; talk big.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 14c., "to brag, speak arrogantly;" from the same source as boast (n.). Related: Boasted; boasting.
mid-13c., "arrogance, presumption, pride, vanity;" c.1300, "a brag, boastful speech," from Anglo-French bost "ostentation," probably via Scandinavian (compare Norwegian baus "proud, bold, daring"), from Proto-Germanic *bausia "to blow up, puff up, swell" (cognates: Middle High German bus "swelling," dialectal German baustern "to swell;" Middle Dutch bose, Dutch boos "evil, wicked, angry," Old High German bosi "worthless, slanderous," German böse "evil, bad, angry"), from PIE *bhou-, variant of root *beu-, *bheu- "to grow, swell" (see bull (n.2)).\n
\nThe notion apparently is of being "puffed up" with pride; compare Old English belgan "to become angry, offend, provoke," belg "anger, arrogance," from the same root as bellows and belly (n.). Related: Boasted; boasting. An Old English word for "boasting" was micelsprecende, "big talk."
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 A brag, a loud positive appraisal of oneself. 2 (context squash English) A shot where the ball is driven off a side wall and then strikes the front wall. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To brag; to talk loudly in praise of oneself. 2 (context transitive English) To speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol. Etymology 2
vb. 1 (context masonry English) To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel. 2 (context sculpting English) To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form required.
WordNet
n. speaking of yourself in superlatives [syn: boasting, self-praise, jactitation]
v. show off [syn: tout, swash, shoot a line, brag, gas, blow, bluster, vaunt, gasconade]
wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner; "she was sporting a new hat" [syn: sport, feature]
Wikipedia
Boast may refer to:
- Robin Boast (born 1956), English Professor of Information Science and Culture at the University of Amsterdam and former curator
- Boast, a shot in the game of squash that hits a sidewall or backwall before hitting the front wall
- "Boast", a track on Blender (Collective Soul album)
Usage examples of "boast".
Whitman was asked whether Bush should have an abortion litmus test for the Supreme Court, she boasted that as governor of New Jersey she had abjured litmus tests for her judicial nominees.
He should boast of his accomplishment and use it as a warning to any others who might attempt to abscond with the affections of his mate.
It deserves notice that he experimented with the most boasted substances,-- cinchona, aconite, mercury, bryonia, belladonna.
As for boasting of our past, the laudator temporis acti makes but a poor figure in our time.
I need not mention, have sufficed to paralyze the powers, by putting completely at fault the boasted acumen, of the government agents.
As often as he is pressed by the demands of the Koreish, he involves himself in the obscure boast of vision and prophecy, appeals to the internal proofs of his doctrine, and shields himself behind the providence of God, who refuses those signs and wonders that would depreciate the merit of faith, and aggravate the guilt of infidelity.
But Europe by the thirteenth century, say, boasted great cities, thriving agriculture and trade, sophisticated government and legal systems.
Like all the other boys of their age except Carlos Alcazar, who boasted about having passed the test they looked at those women from afar, with veneration and fear.
As minister of Kirk Aller he was the metropolitan of the company, and as became a townsman he wore decent black with bands, and boasted a hat.
Though, like a descendant of Archbishop Sharp, and a winner of the archery medal, I boast myself Sancti Leonardi alumnus addictissimus, I am unable to give a description, at first hand, of student life in St.
They were not of Polynesian ancestry, but boasted skin tanned the color of light chocolate.
The planet Ansatz boasts one city, Nightingale, a gem that graces eternal night.
Other fauna boasted by the local biome included marsh rabbits, deer, river otters, a night bird called a clapper rail, and the rare bobcat.
The street in front of Birling House boasted a few stray leaves, fooled by the cold weather into thinking it still winter, but nothing else moved.
A young officer, one amongst many military men who were courting her, when Marshal de Richelieu was commanding in Genoa, boasted of being treated by her with more favour than all the others, and one day, in the very coffee-room where we met, he advised a brother officer not to lose his time in courting her, because he had no chance whatever of obtaining any favour.