boasting

Roget-categorie 884

6. Words relating to the sentient and moral
› 6.2. Personal affections
›› 6.2.5. Extrinsic affections

#884. Boasting

zelfstandig naamwoord

boasting etc. v. — boast, vaunt, crake^† — pretense, pretensions — puff, puffery — flourish, fanfaronade^† — gasconade — blague^†, bluff, gas [Slang] — 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 etc. 549.
vanity etc. 880 — vox et praeterea nihil [Lat.] — much cry and little wool, brutum fulmen [Lat.].
exultation — gloriation^†, glorification — flourish of trumpets — triumph etc. 883.
boaster — braggart, braggadocio — Gascon [Fr.], fanfaron^†, pretender, soi-disant [Fr.] — blower [U.S.], bluffer, Foxy Quiller^† — blusterer etc. 887 — charlatan, jack-pudding, trumpeter — puppy etc. (fop) 854.

werkwoord

boast, make a boast of, brag, vaunt, Puff, show off, flourish, crake^†, crack, trumpet, strut, swagger, vapor — blague^†, blow, four-flush [Slang], bluff.
exult, crow, crow over, neigh, chuckle, triumph — throw up one's cap — talk big, se faire valoir [Fr.], faire claquer son fouet [Fr.], take merit to oneself, make a merit of, sing Io triumphe^†, holloa before one is out of the wood^†.

bijvoeglijk naamwoord

boasting etc. v. — magniloquent, flaming, Thrasonic, stilted, gasconading, braggart, boastful, pretentious, soi-disant [Fr.] — vainglorious etc. (conceited) 880 — highfalutin, highfaluting^† — spread-eagle [U.S.].
elate, elated — jubilant, triumphant, exultant — in high feather — flushed, flushed with victory — cock-a-hoop — on stilts.
vaunted etc. v..

bijwoord

vauntingly etc. adj..

uitdrukking

let the galled jade wince" [Hamlet]; facta non verba [Lat.].

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