Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who boasts, glories, or vaunts with exaggeration, or ostentatiously; a bragger.
- noun A broad chisel used in rough-hewing and dressing off the surface of a stone; a boasting-chisel.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who boasts; a braggart.
- noun A stone mason's broad-faced chisel.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
boasts ; abraggart . - noun A
stonemason 's broad-facedchisel .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a very boastful and talkative person
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Examples
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The boaster is a well-known character in every Indian village; and it is quite plain from the number of stories warning us against self-praise, that the wise men of the tribe have not been slow to discover and point out this weakness of their people.
Wigwam Evenings Sioux Folk Tales Retold Elaine Goodale Eastman 1908
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He refused to believe what he thought impossible, but honour obliged him to call the boaster to the field.
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He sat rebuked in this man's presence -- this man whom, within the hour, he had called boaster and braggart, liar and coward.
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“As generally under - stood,” Aristotle said in the Ethics, “the boaster is a man who pretends to creditable qualities that he does not possess, or possesses in a lesser degree than he makes out, while conversely the self-depreciator dis - claims or disparages good qualities that he does possess.
IRONY NORMAN D. KNOX 1968
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Now, I do not mind being called a boaster, nor a dog either, but when he told me that my verses were not my own, I couldn't contain myself, so I told him he lied, whereupon he flung a glass of liquor in my face, and I knocked him down. "
Lavengro The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest George Henry Borrow 1842
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If you are not rich or a fanatical figure spewing lies and half truths to boaster support, getting them votes, they have no interest in you or hearing your views.
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Old Kinoos is a brave man, but Old Kinoos was never a boaster.
NEGORE, THE COWARD 2010
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A quiet lad he was and not a boaster and braggart like lots o 'people seem to think.
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The synonyms were spot-on: big mouth, blusterer, boaster, braggart, line-shooter, loudmouth, and — my personal favorite — vaunter.
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The synonyms were spot-on: big mouth, blusterer, boaster, braggart, line-shooter, loudmouth, and — my personal favorite — vaunter.
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