Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who vaunts; a boaster; a braggart; a man given to vain ostentation.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who vaunts; a boaster.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Someone who vaunts, who brags; a braggart.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a very boastful and talkative person

Etymologies

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to vaunt + -er, perhaps a calque of Old French vanteor.

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Examples

  • The synonyms were spot-on: big mouth, blusterer, boaster, braggart, line-shooter, loudmouth, and — my personal favorite — vaunter.

    2010 August « Motivated Grammar 2010

  • The synonyms were spot-on: big mouth, blusterer, boaster, braggart, line-shooter, loudmouth, and — my personal favorite — vaunter.

    Review: Wordnik’s Thesaurus « Motivated Grammar 2010

  • "Ay, royal Atheling," shouted the company, "compel the vaunter to show us a sample of his skill."

    The Children's Portion Various

  • He was ill-bred, but he was not mean; he was a vaunter but not a coward; he demanded adherence and did not beg alms.

    Quisanté Anthony Hope 1898

  • Until then I reserve myself for higher duties which are directly laid upon me: it is not permitted to me to leap from the chariot for the sake of wrestling with every loud vaunter.

    Romola George Eliot 1849

  • The king was old and sad; the state of his kingdom preyed upon his mind; he was surrounded by influences hostile to his nephew, whom he himself called "a vaunter of crimes."

    A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6 1830

  • And this dishonour would result if by your lack of diligence you were to put your trust in some vaunter, who by his tricks or by favour shown to him here should obtain such work from you, by which lasting and very great shame would result to him and to you.

    The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Volume 2 1452-1519 Leonardo da Vinci 1485

  • And this dishonour would result if by your lack of diligence you were to put your trust in some vaunter, who by his tricks or by favour shown to him here should obtain such work from you, by which lasting and very great shame would result to him and to you.

    The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Complete 1452-1519 Leonardo da Vinci 1485

  • "And now, worthy Sexwolf, thou shalt see if the Norman is the vaunter thou deemest him.

    Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 07 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • "And now, worthy Sexwolf, thou shalt see if the Norman is the vaunter thou deemest him.

    Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

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