boast

Bedeutung (Englisch)

Noun

1. A brag; ostentatious positive appraisal of oneself.
2. Something that one brags about.
3. A shot where the ball is driven off a side wall and then strikes the front wall.

Verb

1. To brag; to talk loudly in praise of oneself.
2. (used with "about" or "of") To speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol.
3. (obsolete) To speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult.
4. To play a boast shot.
5. To possess something special (e.g. as a feature).

Verb

1. To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel.
2. To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form required.

Konzepte

prahlen

angeben

sich rühmen

bramarbasieren

Prahlerei

brüsten

renommieren

sich brüsten

Eigenlob

aufschneiden

großtun

protzen

aufweisen

Angabe

Dünkel

Stolz

alle Kräfte anspannen

sich anstrengen

tönen

auf dicke Hose machen

den Mund voll nehmen

sich brüsten ''mit D''

prunken

Großtuerei

hochstapeln

rühmen

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/bəʊst/

Etymologie (Englisch)

From Middle English bosten, from bost (“boast, glory, noise, arrogance, presumption, pride, vanity”), probably of North Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *bausuz (“inflated, swollen, puffed up, proud, arrogant, bad”).
Cognate with Scots bost, boist (“to threaten, brag, boast”), Anglo-Norman bost (“ostentation”) (from Germanic). Related to Norwegian baus (“proud, bold, daring”), dialectal German baustern (“to swell”), German böse (“evil, bad, angry”), Dutch boos (“evil, wicked, angry”), West Frisian boas (“bad, wicked, angry, shrewd, clever”). Compare also dialectal Norwegian bausta, busta (“to rush onward, make a noise”).