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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | boast |
| Synonyms: | bluster, boasting, bombast, brag, braggadocio, bravado, crowing, gasconade, gloating, rodomontade, swagger, swaggering |
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| Main Entry: | boasting |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bragging |
| Synonyms: | braggadocio, fanfaronade, gasconade, rodomontade |
| Notes: | bragging is more obnoxious than boasting and is always exaggerated and crude |
| Main Entry: | gasconade |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | boast |
| Synonyms: | avowal, bluster, bombast, brag, braggadocio, bravado, exaggeration, fanfaronade, grandiloquence, heroics, joy, pretension, pride, pride and joy, rodomontade, self-satisfaction, swank, treasure, vaunt |
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| Concept: | Boasting. |
| Category: | 4. Extrinsic Affections |
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-nouns
boasting; boast, vaunt, crake; pretense, pretensions; puff, puffery; flourish, fanfaronade; gasconade; blague, bluff, gas; highfalutin, highfaluting; hot air, spread-eagleism [U.S.]; brag, braggardism; bravado, bunkum, buncombe; jactitation, jactancy; bounce; venditation, vaporing, rodomontade, bombast, fine talking, tall talk, magniloquence, teratology, heroics; Chauvinism; exaggeration., vanity; vox et praeterea nihil; much cry and little wool, brutum fulmen., exultation; gloriation, glorification; flourish of trumpets; triumph., boaster; braggart, braggadocio; Gascon, fanfaron, pretender, soi-disant; blower [U.S.], bluffer, Foxy Quiller; blusterer; charlatan, jack-pudding, trumpeter; puppy (fop).
-verbs
boast, make a boast of, brag, vaunt, puff, show off, flourish, crake, crack, trumpet, strut, swagger, vapor; blague, blow, four-flush, bluff., exult, crow, crow over, neigh, chuckle, triumph; throw up one's cap; talk big, se faire valoir, faire claquer son fouet, take merit to oneself, make a merit of, sing Io triumphe, holloa before one is out of the wood.
-adjectives
boasting; magniloquent, flaming, Thrasonic, stilted, gasconading, braggart, boastful, pretentious, soi-disant; vainglorious (conceited); highfalutin, highfaluting; spread-eagle [U.S.]., elate, elated; jubilant, triumphant, exultant; in high feather; flushed, flushed with victory; cock-a-hoop; on stilts., vaunted
-adverbs
vauntingly
-phrases
"let the galled jade wince" [Hamlet]; facta non verba.
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