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.

Synonyms

brag

vaunt

show off

talk big

swagger

praise oneself

bluster

crow

shoot a line

blow one’s own trumpet

be proud

pride

strut

gasconade

bragging

flaunt

gloat

glory

blow

pride oneself

exaggerate

tout

self-praise

put on airs

jactitation

boasting

swash

gas

ostentate

feature

presumptuous

big talk

brag about

proud

proud of

tall talk

rant

rodomontade

sport

become vain

swank

display

be arrogant

be courteous

be haughty

boast about

crow over

hector

pass gas

swell with pride

be energetic only at beginning of work

ooze fat ó

ooze moisture

abusive language

become conceited

tall tale

exert one’s strength

be puffed up

be boastful

crack

know only how to talk

take pride

crow about

show pride

take a pride in oneself

vie in boasting with another

rhodomontade

plume oneself

arrogance

praise highly

bear up

blabber

bluff

bombast

boost

braggadocio

bragger

bray

break wind

claim

conceited

confess

exhibit

extol

feat

flatulence

flourish

gob

haughtiness

have fun

in high spirits

lift up

nonsense

overstate

overstatement

praise

prate

puff

quiver

say

🗣️

shimmer

showboat

show-off

strain

swashbuckling

tell

toot

trumpet

🎺

turmoil

vainglory

vapour

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”).