Syn. — To brag; bluster; vapor; crow; talk big.
Boast
(Boast), v. t.
1. To display in ostentatious language; to speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-
commendation; to extol.
Lest bad men should boast
Their specious deeds.
Milton.
2. To display vaingloriously.
3. To possess or have; as, to boast a name.
To boast one's self,
to speak with unbecoming confidence in, and approval of, one's self; — followed
by of and the thing to which the boasting relates. [Archaic]
Boast not thyself of to-morrow.
Prov. xxvii. 1
Boast
(Boast), v. t. [Of uncertain etymology.]
1. (Masonry) To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel. Weale.
2. (Sculp.) To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form
required.
Boast
(Boast), n.
1. Act of boasting; vaunting or bragging.
Reason and morals? and where live they most,
In Christian comfort, or in Stoic boast!
Byron.
2. The cause of boasting; occasion of pride or exultation, — sometimes of laudable pride or exultation.
The boast of historians.
Macaulay.
Boastance
(Boast"ance) n. Boasting. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Boaster
(Boast"er) n. One who boasts; a braggart.
Boaster
(Boast"er), n. A stone mason's broad-faced chisel.
Boastful
(Boast"ful) a. Given to, or full of, boasting; inclined to boast; vaunting; vainglorious; self- praising.
— Boast"ful*ly, adv. — Boast"ful*ness, n.
Boasting
(Boast"ing), n. The act of glorying or vaunting; vainglorious speaking; ostentatious display.
When boasting ends, then dignity begins.
Young.