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to give others a high opinion of one's self or of things belonging to one's self; as, to boast of one's exploits courage, descent, wealth. By grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: .. not of works, lest any man should boast. Eph. ii. 8, 9.

Boasting. [Obs.] Chaucer.

One who boasts; a braggart.

Given to, or full of, boasting; inclined to boast; vaunting; vainglorious; self-praising. -- Boast"ful*ly, adv. -- Boast"ful*ness, n.

The act of glorying or vaunting; vainglorious speaking; ostentatious display. When boasting ends, then dignity begins. Young.

Boastfully; with boasting. "He boastingly tells you." Burke.

Presumptuous. [R.]

Without boasting or ostentation.

To stand the consequences of; to answer for; to suffer for. Dearly I abide that boast so vain. Milton.

e still my argument. Shak. The abstract or argument of the piece. Jeffrey. [Shields] with boastful argument portrayed. Milton.

To vaunt; to boast. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A boaster. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Frightful; exceedingly bad; great; -- applied intensively; as, an awful bonnet; an awful boaster. [Slang]

to be false; to convict of, or charge with, falsehood. Their trembling hearts belie their boastful tongues. Dryden.

Mendacious boasting; falcefood; humbug.

One who blatters; a babbler; a noisy, blustering boaster.

Senseless babble or boasting.

A senseless babbler or boaster. [Obs.] "I hate such blatteroons." Howell.

To talk loudly; to boast; to storm. [Colloq.] You blow behind my back, but dare not say anything to my face. Bartlett. To blow hot and cold Etym: (a saying derived from a fable of , to favor a thing at one time and treat it coldly at another; or to appear both to favor and to oppose. -- To blow off, to let steam escap…

To talk with noisy violence; to swagger, as a turbulent or boasting person; to act in a noisy, tumultuous way; to play the bully; to storm; to rage. Your ministerial directors blustered like tragic tyrants. Burke.