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A boasting. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To boast; to talk big; to bluster. [Obs.]

A boaster; a bully. [Collog.] Johnson.

aining to one's self, in a manner intended to excite admiration, envy, or wonder; to talk boastfully; to boast; -- often followed by of; as, to brag of one's exploits, courage, or money, or of the great things one intends to do. Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, Brags of his substance, not of ornament. Shak.…

A braggart; a boaster; a swaggerer. Dryden.

Boastfulness; act of bragging. Shak.

A boaster. O, I could play the woman with mine eyes, And braggart with my tongue. Shak.

One who brags; a boaster.

Boastingly.

Boastful and threatening behavior; a boastful menace. In spite of our host's bravado. Irving.

A bravado; a boast. With so proud a strain Of threats and bravings. Chapman.

torial nature of the pope's bulls and his professions of humility. And whereas the papist boasts himself to be a Roman Catholic, it is a mere contradiction, one of the pope's bulls, as if he should say universal particular; a Catholic schimatic. Milton. The Golden Bull, an edict or imperial constitution made by the emp…

To change hands, to change owners. -- To change one's tune, to become less confident or boastful. [Colloq.] -- To change step, to take a break in the regular succession of steps, in marching or walking, as by bringing the hollow of one foot against the heel of the other, and then stepping off with the foot which is i…

r Ball. -- Chaparral cock. See under Chaparral. -- Cock and bull story, an extravagant, boastful story; a canard. -- Cock of the plains (Zoöl.) See Sage cock. -- Cock of the rock (Zoöl.), a South American bird (Rupicola aurantia) having a beautiful crest. -- Cock of the walk, a chief or master; the hero of the hou…

Boastful; defiant; exulting. Also used adverbially.

s very beautiful when he was young. South. Not once perceive their foul disfigurement But boast themselves more comely than before. Milton.

of compelling the admission of a truth; confutation. For all his tedious talk is but vain boast, Or subtle shifts conviction to evade. Milton.

To utter vain, pompous words; to brag; to boast; -- with of. [Archaic.] Ethoipes of their sweet complexion crack. Shak.

A noisy boaster; a swaggering fellow. [Obs.] What cracker is this same that deafs our ears Shak.

To boast; to speak loudly and boastfully. [Obs.] Each man may crake of that which was his own. Mir. for Mag.