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boast
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /b??st/
- (General American) IPA(key): /bo?st/
- Rhymes: -??st
Etymology 1
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”).
Noun
boast (plural boasts)
- A brag; ostentatious positive appraisal of oneself.
- Something that one brags about.
- (squash (sport)) A shot where the ball is driven off a side wall and then strikes the front wall.
Translations
Verb
boast (third-person singular simple present boasts, present participle boasting, simple past and past participle boasted)
- (intransitive) To brag; to talk loudly in praise of oneself.
- 2005, Lesley Brown (translator), Plato, Sophist, 235c.
- 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.
- 2005, Lesley Brown (translator), Plato, Sophist, 235c.
- (transitive) To speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol.
- (obsolete) To speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult.
- (squash (sport)) To play a boast shot.
- (ergative) To possess something special (e.g. as a feature).
Synonyms
- brag
Derived terms
- boastful
- boastfully
- boastworthy
- outboast
Translations
Etymology 2
Verb
boast (third-person singular simple present boasts, present participle boasting, simple past and past participle boasted)
- (masonry) To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel.
- (sculpting) To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form required.
References
- “boast”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
Anagrams
- basto, boats, sabot
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gassing
English
Pronunciation
Verb
gassing
- present participle of gas
Noun
gassing (usually uncountable, plural gassings)
- Poisoning by noxious gas.
- The liberation of hydrogen from an overcharged battery due to electrolysis of the electrolyte.
- The process of passing cotton goods between two rollers and exposing them to numerous minute jets of gas to burn off the small fibres.
- Any similar process of singeing.
- (slang) boasting; insincere or empty talk
Makasar
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [??as?i?]
Adjective
gassing (Lontara spelling ???)
- strong
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