boast

Meaning

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.

Concepts

boast

brag

vaunt

show off

swagger

talk big

praise oneself

bluster

crow

pride

blow one’s own trumpet

be proud

shoot a line

bragging

flaunt

gloat

strut

gasconade

exaggerate

glory

pride oneself

tout

blow

self-praise

put on airs

boasting

gas

swash

jactitation

proud of

tall talk

ostentate

feature

sport

big talk

display

rodomontade

rant

become vain

swank

brag about

presumptuous

proud

overstate

extol

trumpet

arrogance

haughtiness

bear up

bluff

exert one’s strength

strain

confess

know only how to talk

claim

be haughty

swell with pride

crow about

crow over

take a pride in oneself

vie in boasting with another

show pride

vainglory

crack

flourish

puff

vapour

bombast

hector

be puffed up

be arrogant

blabber

prate

be energetic only at beginning of work

ooze fat ó

ooze moisture

quiver

shimmer

praise highly

conceited

be courteous

boost

exhibit

be boastful

show-off

showboat

become conceited

feat

take pride

braggadocio

swashbuckling

have fun

in high spirits

gob

tall tale

boast about

plume oneself

bragger

break wind

nonsense

pass gas

flatulence

overstatement

toot

bray

rhodomontade

say

tell

lift up

praise

abusive language

turmoil

Pronounced as (IPA)

/bəʊst/

Etymology

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”).