boast
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
squash
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”). Possible doublet of boost.
Compare typologically puffy, Russian напы́щенный (napýščennyj), наду́тый (nadútyj).
Inflected forms:
form: boasts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: boasts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: boasting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: boasted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: boasted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A brag; ostentatious positive appraisal of oneself.
pos: noun
gloss: Something that one brags about.
pos: noun
examples: It was his regular boast that he could eat two full English breakfasts in one sitting.
gloss: A shot where the ball is driven off a side wall and then strikes the front wall.
pos: noun
gloss: To brag; to talk loudly in praise of oneself.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: On no account will he or any other kind be able to boast that he's escaped the pursuit of those who can follow so detailed and comprehensive a method of enquiry.
gloss: (used with "about" or "of") To speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Lest bad men should boast / Their specious deeds.
The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about "creating compelling content", or offering services that let you "stay up to date with what your friends are doing",[…]and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention.
gloss: To speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: In God we boast all the day long.
gloss: To play a boast shot.
pos: verb
gloss: To possess (a special and desirable quality).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The hotel boasts one of the best views of the sea.
His family boasted a famous name.
The Meinung, Kaoshu, Shalin, and Liukuei Hakka together comprised the army's "Right Unit," and it alone boasted some 3,200 fighting men.
Jinhua and others are spending big to get there. In Jinjiang, a city in Fujian Province once known as a shoe-manufacturing center, Jinhua’s new factory is almost finished. Rising five stories and stretching several football fields long, the structure boasts 100,000 square feet of new office space.
After dropping off travellers at Foregate Street, my train terminates at Shrub Hill - a station which boasts one of the best selection [sic] of semaphore signals left in the country.
Synonyms: brag
crow
vaunt
Antonyms: depreciate
Derived words: boaster
boastful
boastfully
boastingly
boastive
boastless
boastly
boastsome
boastworthy
outboast
overboast
unboasted
unboasting
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