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Vaporing

Vaporing \Va"por*ing\, a. Talking idly; boasting; vaunting. -- Va"por*ing*ly, adv.

Vaporing

Vapor \Va"por\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Vapored; p. pr. & vb. n. Vaporing.] [From Vapor, n.: cf. L. vaporare.] [Written also vapour.]

  1. To pass off in fumes, or as a moist, floating substance, whether visible or invisible, to steam; to be exhaled; to evaporate.

  2. To emit vapor or fumes. [R.]

    Running waters vapor not so much as standing waters.
    --Bacon.

  3. To talk idly; to boast or vaunt; to brag.

    Poets used to vapor much after this manner.
    --Milton.

    We vapor and say, By this time Matthews has beaten them.
    --Walpole.

Wiktionary
vaporing

n. (alt form vapouring English) vb. (present participle of vapor English)

WordNet
vaporing

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.