Boasting
Nouns
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boasting etc. v.
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boast, vaunt, crake
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pretense, pretensions
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puff, puffery
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flourish, fanfaronade
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gasconade
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blague, bluff, gas [Slang]
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highfalutin, highfaluting
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hot air, spread-eagleism [U.S.]
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brag, braggardism
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bravado, bunkum, buncombe
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jactitation, jactancy
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bounce
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venditation, vaporing, rodomontade, bombast, fine talking, tall talk, magniloquence, teratology, heroics
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Chauvinism
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exaggeration etc. Exaggeration. vanity etc. Vanity
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much cry and little wool
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gloriation, glorification
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flourish of trumpets
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triumph etc. Celebration. boaster
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braggart, braggadocio
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fanfaron, pretender
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blower [U.S.], bluffer, Foxy Quiller
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blusterer etc. Blusterer
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charlatan, jack-pudding, trumpeter
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puppy etc. (fop) Fop.
Verbs
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boast, make a boast of, brag, vaunt, Puff, show off, flourish, crake, crack, trumpet, strut, swagger, vapor
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blague, blow, four-flush [Slang], bluff. exult, crow, crow over, neigh, chuckle, triumph
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throw up one's cap
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talk big, take merit to oneself, make a merit of, sing Io triumphe, holloa before one is out of the wood.
Adjectives
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boasting etc. v.
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magniloquent, flaming, Thrasonic, stilted, gasconading, braggart, boastful, pretentious
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vainglorious etc. (conceited) Vanity
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highfalutin, highfaluting
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spread-eagle [U.S.]. elate, elated
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jubilant, triumphant, exultant
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in high feather
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flushed, flushed with victory
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cock-a-hoop
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on stilts. vaunted etc. v..
Phrases
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let the galled jade wince" [Hamlet]