different between proud vs boast

English

Alternative forms

• prowd (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English proud, prout, prut, from Old English pr?d, pr?t (“proud, arrogant, haughty”) (compare Old English pr?tung (“pride”); pr?de, pr?te (“pride”)). Cognate with German Low German praud, Old Norse prúðr (“gallant, brave, magnificent, stately, handsome, fine”) (Icelandic prúður, Middle Swedish prudh, Danish prud), probably from Old French prod, prud (“brave, gallant”) (modern French preux), from Late Latin pr?de (“useful”), derived from Latin pr?desse (“to be of value”); however, the Old English umlaut derivatives pr?te, pr?tian, etc. suggest the word may be older and possibly native. See also pride.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?a?d/
• Rhymes: -a?d

Adjective

proud (comparative prouder or more proud, superlative proudest or most proud)

1. Feeling honoured (by something); feeling happy or satisfied about an event or fact; gratified.
   1. That makes one feel proud (of something one did)

2. Possessed of a due sense of what one deserves or is worth.
3. (chiefly biblical) Having too high an opinion of oneself; arrogant, supercilious.
4. Generating a sense of pride; being a cause for pride.

5. (Of things) standing upwards as in the manner of a proud person; stately or majestic.
6. Standing out or raised; swollen.

7. (obsolete) Brave, valiant; gallant.
8. (obsolete) Excited by sexual desire; specifically of a female animal: in heat.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:arrogant

Antonyms

• ashamed

Derived terms

Related terms

• pride
• prude

Translations

Anagrams

• pour'd, pudor

Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *pr?d?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?prou?t]
• Rhymes: -out

Noun

proud m

1. current
2. (electricity) current

Declension

Derived terms

• proud?ní
• proudící
• proudit
• po proudu
• proti proudu
• protiproud

Further reading

• proud in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• proud in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

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)

1. A brag; ostentatious positive appraisal of oneself.
2. Something that one brags about.

3. (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)

1. (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.

2. (transitive) To speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol.
3. (obsolete) To speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult.
4. (squash (sport)) To play a boast shot.
5. (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)

1. (masonry) To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel.
2. (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